Mathematical models to study the biology of pathogens and the infectious diseases they cause

JB Xavier, JM Monk, S Poudel, CJ Norsigian, AV Sastry… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Mathematical models have many applications in infectious diseases: epidemiologists use
them to forecast outbreaks and design containment strategies; systems biologists use them …

High-resolution temporal profiling of E. coli transcriptional response

A Miano, K Rychel, A Lezia, A Sastry, B Palsson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how cells dynamically adapt to their environment is a primary focus of
biology research. Temporal information about cellular behavior is often limited by both small …

Machine-learning from Pseudomonas putida KT2440 transcriptomes reveals its transcriptional regulatory network

HG Lim, K Rychel, AV Sastry, GJ Bentley, J Mueller… - Metabolic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bacterial gene expression is orchestrated by numerous transcription factors (TFs).
Elucidating how gene expression is regulated is fundamental to understanding bacterial …

Machine learning from Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptomes identifies independently modulated sets of genes associated with known transcriptional regulators

A Rajput, H Tsunemoto, AV Sastry… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa coordinates
cellular processes in response to stimuli. We used 364 transcriptomes (281 publicly …

Systems biology of competency in Vibrio natriegens is revealed by applying novel data analytics to the transcriptome

J Shin, K Rychel, BO Palsson - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Vibrio natriegens regulates natural competence through the TfoX and QstR transcription
factors, which are involved in external DNA capture and transport. However, the extensive …

Advanced transcriptomic analysis reveals the role of efflux pumps and media composition in antibiotic responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A Rajput, H Tsunemoto, AV Sastry… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and major cause of hospital-
acquired infections. The virulence of P. aeruginosa is largely determined by its …

A multi-scale expression and regulation knowledge base for Escherichia coli

CR Lamoureux, KT Decker, AV Sastry… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomic data is accumulating rapidly; thus, scalable methods for extracting
knowledge from this data are critical. Here, we assembled a top-down expression and …

Laboratory evolution, transcriptomics, and modeling reveal mechanisms of paraquat tolerance

K Rychel, J Tan, A Patel, C Lamoureux, Y Hefner… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Relationships between the genome, transcriptome, and metabolome underlie all evolved
phenotypes. However, it has proved difficult to elucidate these relationships because of the …

Machine learning of all Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv RNA-seq data reveals a structured interplay between metabolism, stress response, and infection

R Yoo, K Rychel, S Poudel, T Al-Bulushi, Y Yuan… - MSphere, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most consequential human bacterial pathogens,
posing a serious challenge to 21st century medicine. A key feature of its pathogenicity is its …

Reconstructing the transcriptional regulatory network of probiotic L. reuteri is enabled by transcriptomics and machine learning

J Josephs-Spaulding, A Rajput, Y Hefner, R Szubin… - Msystems, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Limosilactobacillus reuteri, a probiotic microbe instrumental to human health and
sustainable food production, adapts to diverse environmental shifts via dynamic gene …