Abstract
Donati and Kuntz et al., study the consequences of CRISPR interference in Escherichia coli metabolism. Their work suggests that metabolism is robust against knockdowns of enzymes and that regulatory metabolite-protein interactions buffer such perturbations.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Cell Systems |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 56-67.e6 |
ISSN | 2405-4712 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Jan 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank T.J. Erb, V. Sourjik, and A. Diepold for discussions. We thank J. Elf for providing the YYdCas9 strain. This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 715650, ERC Starting Grant MapMe). S.D. and M.K. acknowledge funding from the IMPRS graduate school for environmental, cellular, and molecular microbiology from the Max Planck Society. L.R. acknowledges funding from DFG SPP2141. S.D. performed experiments with arrayed CRISPRi strains, analyzed data, performed FBA analysis, and co-wrote the manuscript. M.K. performed experiments with the pooled CRISPRi library and co-wrote the manuscript. M.K. and S.D. analyzed data from the pooled CRISPRi screen. V.P. performed experiments with arrayed CRISPRi strains. N.F. developed and analyzed the CarAB model. D.B. constructed the pooled CRISPRi library. M.K. J.V.G.F. and L.R. performed Illumina sequencing. T.G. measured proteomes. C.-Y.W. performed experiments. H.L. conceived the study, analyzed data, and co-wrote the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests.
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Keywords
- Allosteric regulation
- CRISPR interference
- Metabolic robustness
- Metabolomics
- Proteomics
- Transcriptional regulation