PMID:21185072

Citation	Nichols, RJ, Sen, S, Choo, YJ, Beltrao, P, Zietek, M, Chaba, R, Lee, S, Kazmierczak, KM, Lee, KJ, Wong, A, Shales, M, Lovett, S, Winkler, ME, Krogan, NJ, Typas, A and Gross, CA (2011) Phenotypic landscape of a bacterial cell.Cell 144:143-56
Abstract	The explosion of sequence information in bacteria makes developing high-throughput, cost-effective approaches to matching genes with phenotypes imperative. Using E. coli as proof of principle, we show that combining large-scale chemical genomics with quantitative fitness measurements provides a high-quality data set rich in discovery. Probing growth profiles of a mutant library in hundreds of conditions in parallel yielded > 10,000 phenotypes that allowed us to study gene essentiality, discover leads for gene function and drug action, and understand higher-order organization of the bacterial chromosome. We highlight new information derived from the study, including insights into a gene involved in multiple antibiotic resistance and the synergy between a broadly used combinatory antibiotic therapy, trimethoprim and sulfonamides. This data set, publicly available at http://ecoliwiki.net/tools/chemgen/, is a valuable resource for both the microbiological and bioinformatic communities, as it provides high-confidence associations between hundreds of annotated and uncharacterized genes as well as inferences about the mode of action of several poorly understood drugs.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1016/j.cell.2010.11.052 Link to Supplemental data Publicly-available data set
Keywords	phenotype; phenomic profiling; high-throughput; chemical genomics; antibiotic resistance; synergy
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Main Points of the Paper

• Central Goal- systematically evaluate the impact of every gene deletion on E.coli fitness in diverse environments

• Phenomic Profiling- quantitative description of the response of all single-gene deletions to physiologically relevant stresses and drug challenges
  • profiled ~4,000 genes in 324 conditions covering 114 unique stresses (more than half were antimicrobial/antibiotic stress)
  • identified thousands of phenotypes
  • identified a diverse set of conditionally essential genes
  • facilitates high-confidence association of genes of unknown function to those of known function
  • generates numerous leads concerning drug function

• Hierarchical clustering
• Phenotypic Signature- response of each mutant strain across all conditions
  • high correlation b/t two phenotypic signatures implies a functional connection b/t genes

Materials and Methods Used

• Libraries used in the screening
  • Keio single-gene deletion library
  • essential gene hypomorphs
  • RNA/small protein knockout library

• Hierarchical clustering

Phenotype Annotations

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Species	Taxon ID	Strain	Gene (if known)	OMP	Phenotype	Details	Evidence	Notes
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