Understanding carbon catabolite repression in Escherichia coli using quantitative models

A Kremling, J Geiselmann, D Ropers, H de Jong - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) controls the order in which different carbon sources are
metabolized. Although this system is one of the paradigms of the regulation of gene …

Figure 1 theory meets figure 2 experiments in the study of gene expression

R Phillips, NM Belliveau, G Chure… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
It is tempting to believe that we now own the genome. The ability to read and rewrite it at will
has ushered in a stunning period in the history of science. Nonetheless, there is an Achilles' …

Glucose becomes one of the worst carbon sources for E.coli on poor nitrogen sources due to suboptimal levels of cAMP

A Bren, JO Park, BD Towbin, E Dekel, JD Rabinowitz… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
In most conditions, glucose is the best carbon source for E. coli: it provides faster growth
than other sugars and is consumed first in sugar mixtures. Here we identify conditions in …

Hierarchy of non-glucose sugars in Escherichia coli

G Aidelberg, BD Towbin, D Rothschild, E Dekel… - BMC systems …, 2014 - Springer
Background Understanding how cells make decisions, and why they make the decisions
they make, is of fundamental interest in systems biology. To address this, we study the …

Optimality and sub-optimality in a bacterial growth law

BD Towbin, Y Korem, A Bren, S Doron, R Sorek… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Organisms adjust their gene expression to improve fitness in diverse environments. But
finding the optimal expression in each environment presents a challenge. We ask how good …

Novel insights from hybrid LacI/GalR proteins: family-wide functional attributes and biologically significant variation in transcription repression

S Meinhardt, MW Manley Jr, NA Becker… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
LacI/GalR transcription regulators have extensive, non-conserved interfaces between their
regulatory domains and the 18 amino acids that serve as 'linkers' to their DNA-binding …

The need for integrated approaches in metabolic engineering

A Lechner, E Brunk… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
This review highlights state-of-the-art procedures for heterologous small-molecule
biosynthesis, the associated bottlenecks, and new strategies that have the potential to …

Individual-versus group-optimality in the production of secreted bacterial compounds

KT Schiessl, A Ross-Gillespie, DM Cornforth… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
How unicellular organisms optimize the production of compounds is a fundamental
biological question. While it is typically thought that production is optimized at the individual …

Evolutionary constraints in variable environments, from proteins to networks

KM Taute, S Gude, P Nghe, SJ Tans - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Environmental changes can not only trigger a regulatory response, but also impose
evolutionary pressures that can modify the underlying regulatory network. Here, we review …

Universality and predictability in molecular quantitative genetics

A Nourmohammad, T Held, M Lässig - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Molecular traits, such as gene expression levels or protein binding affinities, are increasingly
accessible to quantitative measurement by modern high-throughput techniques. Such traits …