The ecocyc database (2023)

PD Karp, S Paley, R Caspi, A Kothari… - EcoSal …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
EcoCyc is a bioinformatics database available online at EcoCyc. org that describes the
genome and the biochemical machinery of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655. The long-term …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of essential genes of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis

BA Klein, EL Tenorio, DW Lazinski, A Camilli… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium associated
with periodontal disease onset and progression. Genetic tools for the manipulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Improved detection of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria by multiplex PCR

F Molina, E López-Acedo, R Tabla, I Roa, A Gómez… - BMC …, 2015 - Springer
Background The presence of coliform bacteria is routinely assessed to establish the
microbiological safety of water supplies and raw or processed foods. Coliforms are a group …

Genome‐scale gene/reaction essentiality and synthetic lethality analysis

PF Suthers, A Zomorrodi, CD Maranas - Molecular systems biology, 2009 - embopress.org
Synthetic lethals are to pairs of non‐essential genes whose simultaneous deletion prohibits
growth. One can extend the concept of synthetic lethality by considering gene groups of …

CRISPR tools to control gene expression in bacteria

A Vigouroux, D Bikard - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY CRISPR-Cas systems have been engineered as powerful tools to control gene
expression in bacteria. The most common strategy relies on the use of Cas effectors …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide essential gene identification in Streptococcus sanguinis

P Xu, X Ge, L Chen, X Wang, Y Dou, JZ Xu, JR Patel… - Scientific reports, 2011 - nature.com
A clear perception of gene essentiality in bacterial pathogens is pivotal for identifying drug
targets to combat emergence of new pathogens and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, for …

Evolution of chromosome organization driven by selection for reduced gene expression noise

NN Batada, LD Hurst - Nature genetics, 2007 - nature.com
The distribution of genes on eukaryotic chromosomes is nonrandom, but the reasons behind
this are not well understood. The commonly observed clustering of essential genes is a case …

Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli essential genes and minimal cell factories after one decade of genome engineering

M Juhas, DR Reuß, B Zhu… - Microbiology, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
Investigation of essential genes, besides contributing to understanding the fundamental
principles of life, has numerous practical applications. Essential genes can be exploited as …

Whole proteome analysis of post-translational modifications: applications of mass-spectrometry for proteogenomic annotation

N Gupta, S Tanner, N Jaitly, JN Adkins… - Genome …, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
While bacterial genome annotations have significantly improved in recent years, techniques
for bacterial proteome annotation (including post-translational chemical modifications, signal …

Systematic Mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli Genome

Y Kang, T Durfee, JD Glasner, Y Qiu… - Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A high-throughput method has been developed for the systematic mutagenesis
of the Escherichia coli genome. The system is based on in vitro transposition of a modified …