Systematic genome-wide querying of coding and non-coding functional elements in E. coli using CRISPRi

HS Rishi, E Toro, H Liu, X Wang, LS Qi, AP Arkin - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Genome-wide repression screens using CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) have enabled the
high-throughput identification of essential genes in bacteria. However, there is a lack of …

Comparative genomics hints at dispensability of multiple essential genes in two Escherichia coli L-form strains

Y Liu, Y Zhang, C Kang, D Tian, H Lu, B Xu… - Bioscience …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Despite the critical role of bacterial cell walls in maintaining cell shapes, certain
environmental stressors can induce the transition of many bacterial species into a wall …

Revealing causes for false-positive and false-negative calling of gene essentiality in Escherichia coli using transposon insertion sequencing

D Choe, U Kim, S Hwang, SW Seo, D Kim, S Cho… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The massive sequencing of transposon insertion mutant libraries (Tn-Seq) represents a
commonly used method to determine essential genes in bacteria. Using a hypersaturated …

A mobile CRISPRi collection enables genetic interaction studies for the essential genes of Escherichia coli

K Rachwalski, MM Tu, SJ Madden, S French… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
Advances in gene editing, in particular CRISPR interference (CRISPRi), have enabled
depletion of essential cellular machinery to study the downstream effects on bacterial …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of essential genes that support fitness of Acinetobacter baumannii efflux pump overproducers in the presence of fluoroquinolone

E Hamami, W Huo, K Neal, I Neisewander, E Geisinger… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen often associated with multidrug
resistance (MDR) infections. Fluoroquinolone resistance (FQR) due to drug target site …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in genome-scale engineering in Escherichia coli and their applications

H Gao, Z Qiu, X Wang, X Zhang, Y Zhang, J Dai… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to the rapid advancement of genome engineering technologies, the scale of genome
engineering has expanded dramatically. Genome editing has progressed from one genomic …

Past, Present, and Future of Genome Modification in Escherichia coli

H Mori, M Kataoka, X Yang - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Escherichia coli K-12 is one of the most well-studied species of bacteria. This species,
however, is much more difficult to modify by homologous recombination (HR) than other …

CRISPR Interference-Based Functional Small RNA Genomics

G Prezza, AJ Westermann - Bacterial Regulatory RNA: Methods and …, 2024 - Springer
Small RNAs (sRNAs) are versatile regulators universally present in species across the
prokaryotic kingdom, yet their functional characterization remains a major bottleneck. Gene …

A plasmid toolset for CRISPR‐mediated genome editing and CRISPRi gene regulation in Escherichia coli

AJ Jervis, EKR Hanko, MS Dunstan… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CRISPR technologies have become standard laboratory tools for genetic manipulations
across all kingdoms of life. Despite their origins in bacteria, the development of CRISPR …

Three-dimensional biofilm colony growth supports a mutualism involving matrix and nutrient sharing

HA Arjes, L Willis, H Gui, Y Xiao, J Peters, C Gross… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Life in a three-dimensional biofilm is typical for many bacteria, yet little is known about how
strains interact in this context. Here, we created essential gene CRISPR interference …