A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Best practices on the differential expression analysis of multi-species RNA-seq

M Chung, VM Bruno, DA Rasko, CA Cuomo, JF Muñoz… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Advances in transcriptome sequencing allow for simultaneous interrogation of differentially
expressed genes from multiple species originating from a single RNA sample, termed dual …

An in vivo atlas of host–pathogen transcriptomes during Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization and disease

A D'Mello, AN Riegler, E Martínez… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) colonizes the nasopharynx and can cause pneumonia.
From the lungs it spreads to the bloodstream and causes organ damage. We characterized …

Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase is the nascent chain release factor in bacterial ribosome-associated quality control

MS Svetlov, CF Dunand, JA Nakamoto, GC Atkinson… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Rescuing stalled ribosomes often involves their splitting into subunits. In many bacteria, the
resultant large subunits bearing peptidyl-tRNAs are processed by the ribosome-associated …

An RNA-centric global view of Clostridioides difficile reveals broad activity of Hfq in a clinically important gram-positive bacterium

M Fuchs, V Lamm-Schmidt, J Sulzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The gram-positive human pathogen Clostridioides difficile has emerged as the leading
cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. However, little is known about the bacterium's …

Grad‐seq in a Gram‐positive bacterium reveals exonucleolytic sRNA activation in competence control

J Hör, G Garriss, S Di Giorgio, LM Hack… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
RNA–protein interactions are the crucial basis for many steps of bacterial gene expression,
including post‐transcriptional control by small regulatory RNA s (sRNA s). In stark contrast to …

[HTML][HTML] A computational system for identifying operons based on RNA-seq data

B Tjaden - Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
An operon is a set of neighboring genes in a genome that is transcribed as a single
polycistronic message. Genes that are part of the same operon often have related functional …

Refining the pneumococcal competence regulon by RNA sequencing

J Slager, R Aprianto, JW Veening - Journal of bacteriology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Competence for genetic transformation allows the opportunistic human pathogen
Streptococcus pneumoniae to take up exogenous DNA for incorporation into its own …

Genome-scale transcription-translation mapping reveals features of Zymomonas mobilis transcription units and promoters

JM Vera, IN Ghosh, Y Zhang, AS Hebert, JJ Coon… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zymomonas mobilis is an ethanologenic alphaproteobacterium with promise for the
industrial conversion of renewable plant biomass into fuels and chemical bioproducts …

Transcriptional organization and regulation of the Pseudomonas putida flagellar system

A Leal‐Morales, M Pulido‐Sánchez… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A single region of the Pseudomonas putida genome, designated the flagellar cluster,
includes 59 genes potentially involved in the biogenesis and function of the flagellar system …