Transcriptional regulator-induced phenotype screen reveals drug potentiators in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
NATURE MICROBIOLOGY(2020)
Abstract
Transposon-based strategies provide a powerful and unbiased way to study the bacterial stress response 1 – 8 , but these approaches cannot fully capture the complexities of network-based behaviour. Here, we present a network-based genetic screening approach: the transcriptional regulator-induced phenotype (TRIP) screen, which we used to identify previously uncharacterized network adaptations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the first-line anti-tuberculosis drug isoniazid (INH). We found regulators that alter INH susceptibility when induced, several of which could not be identified by standard gene disruption approaches. We then focused on a specific regulator, mce3R , which potentiated INH activity when induced. We compared mce3R -regulated genes with baseline INH transcriptional responses and implicated the gene ctpD (Rv1469) as a putative INH effector. Evaluating a ctpD disruption mutant demonstrated a previously unknown role for this gene in INH susceptibility. Integrating TRIP screening with network information can uncover sophisticated molecular response programs.
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Key words
Bacteriology,Regulatory networks,Systems biology,Life Sciences,general,Microbiology,Medical Microbiology,Parasitology,Infectious Diseases,Virology
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