Leveraging independent component analysis to unravel transcriptional regulatory networks: A critical review and future directions

Y Zhang, J Zhao, X Sun, Y Zheng, T Chen… - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs) play a crucial role in exploring microbial life
activities and complex regulatory mechanisms. The comprehensive reconstruction of TRNs …

iModulonMiner and PyModulon: software for unsupervised mining of gene expression compendia

AV Sastry, Y Yuan, S Poudel, K Rychel… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Public gene expression databases are a rapidly expanding resource of organism responses
to diverse perturbations, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge for bioinformatics …

Group A Streptococcus adaptation to diverse niches: lessons from transcriptomic studies

L Schiavolin, G Deneubourg, J Steinmetz… - Critical reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a major human pathogen, causing diseases
ranging from mild superficial infections of the skin and pharyngeal epithelium to severe …

A genome-scale metabolic model of a globally disseminated hyperinvasive M1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes

Y Hirose, DC Zielinski, S Poudel, K Rychel, JL Baker… - Msystems, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Streptococcus pyogenes is responsible for a range of diseases in humans contributing
significantly to morbidity and mortality. Among more than 200 serotypes of S. pyogenes …

Systematic elucidation of independently modulated genes in Lactiplantibacillus plantarum reveals a trade‐off between secondary and primary metabolism

S Qiu, Y Huang, S Liang, H Zeng… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum is a probiotic bacterium widely used in food and health
industries, but its gene regulatory information is limited in existing databases, which …

iModulonDB 2.0: dynamic tools to facilitate knowledge-mining and user-enabled analyses of curated transcriptomic datasets

EA Catoiu, J Krishnan, G Li, XA Lou… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Abstract iModulons—sets of co-expressed genes identified through independent component
analysis (ICA) of high-quality transcriptomic datasets—provide an unbiased, modular view of …

Streptolysin S is required for Streptococcus pyogenes nasopharyngeal and skin infection in HLA-transgenic mice

BA Shannon, JR Hurst, RS Flannagan, HC Craig… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Streptococcus pyogenes is a human-specific pathogen that commonly colonizes the upper
respiratory tract and skin, causing a wide variety of diseases ranging from pharyngitis to …

Meta-analysis Driven Strain Design for Mitigating Oxidative Stresses Important in Biomanufacturing

PV Phaneuf, SH Kim, K Rychel, C Rode… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
As the availability of data sets increases, meta-analysis leveraging aggregated and
interoperable data types is proving valuable. This study leveraged a meta-analysis workflow …

Machine learning analysis of RB-TnSeq fitness data predicts functional gene modules in Pseudomonas putida KT2440

AJ Borchert, AC Bleem, HG Lim, K Rychel, KD Dooley… - Msystems, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is growing interest in engineering Pseudomonas putida KT2440 as a microbial
chassis for the conversion of renewable and waste-based feedstocks, and metabolic …

Independent component analysis reveals 49 independently modulated gene sets within the global transcriptional regulatory architecture of multidrug-resistant …

ND Menon, S Poudel, AV Sastry, K Rychel, R Szubin… - Msystems, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii causes severe infections in humans, resists multiple antibiotics,
and survives in stressful environmental conditions due to modulations of its complex …