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Science | 2010

Quantifying E. coli proteome and transcriptome with single-molecule sensitivity in single cells.

Yuichi Taniguchi; Paul J. Choi; Gene-Wei Li; Huiyi Chen; Mohan Babu; Jeremy Hearn; Andrew Emili; Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Devil in the Detail Genetically identical cells in the same environment can show variation in gene expression that may cause phenotypic variation at the single-cell level. But how noisy are most genes? Taniguchi et al. (p. 533; see the Perspective by Tyagi) now report single-cell global profiling of both messenger RNA (mRNA) and proteins in Escherichia coli using a yellow fluorescent protein fusion library. As well as a common extrinsic noise in high-abundance proteins, large fluctuations were observed in low-abundance proteins. Remarkably, in single-cell experiments, mRNA and protein levels for the same gene were uncorrelated. Measurement of protein and messenger RNA copy numbers in single Escherichia coli cells gives a system-wide view of stochastic gene expression. Protein and messenger RNA (mRNA) copy numbers vary from cell to cell in isogenic bacterial populations. However, these molecules often exist in low copy numbers and are difficult to detect in single cells. We carried out quantitative system-wide analyses of protein and mRNA expression in individual cells with single-molecule sensitivity using a newly constructed yellow fluorescent protein fusion library for Escherichia coli. We found that almost all protein number distributions can be described by the gamma distribution with two fitting parameters which, at low expression levels, have clear physical interpretations as the transcription rate and protein burst size. At high expression levels, the distributions are dominated by extrinsic noise. We found that a single cell’s protein and mRNA copy numbers for any given gene are uncorrelated.


Molecular Microbiology | 2011

A dual function of the CRISPR–Cas system in bacterial antivirus immunity and DNA repair

Mohan Babu; Natalia Beloglazova; Robert Flick; Chris Graham; Tatiana Skarina; Boguslaw Nocek; Alla Gagarinova; Oxana Pogoutse; Greg Brown; Andrew Binkowski; Sadhna Phanse; Andrzej Joachimiak; Eugene V. Koonin; Alexei Savchenko; Andrew Emili; Jack Greenblatt; A. Edwards; Alexander F. Yakunin

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) and the associated proteins (Cas) comprise a system of adaptive immunity against viruses and plasmids in prokaryotes. Cas1 is a CRISPR‐associated protein that is common to all CRISPR‐containing prokaryotes but its function remains obscure. Here we show that the purified Cas1 protein of Escherichia coli (YgbT) exhibits nuclease activity against single‐stranded and branched DNAs including Holliday junctions, replication forks and 5′‐flaps. The crystal structure of YgbT and site‐directed mutagenesis have revealed the potential active site. Genome‐wide screens show that YgbT physically and genetically interacts with key components of DNA repair systems, including recB, recC and ruvB. Consistent with these findings, the ygbT deletion strain showed increased sensitivity to DNA damage and impaired chromosomal segregation. Similar phenotypes were observed in strains with deletion of CRISPR clusters, suggesting that the function of YgbT in repair involves interaction with the CRISPRs. These results show that YgbT belongs to a novel, structurally distinct family of nucleases acting on branched DNAs and suggest that, in addition to antiviral immunity, at least some components of the CRISPR–Cas system have a function in DNA repair.


Nature | 2012

Interaction landscape of membrane - protein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mohan Babu; James Vlasblom; Shuye Pu; Xinghua Guo; Chris Graham; Björn D. M. Bean; Helen E. Burston; Franco J. Vizeacoumar; Jamie Snider; Sadhna Phanse; Vincent Fong; Yuen Yi C. Tam; Michael Davey; Olha Hnatshak; Navgeet Bajaj; Shamanta Chandran; Thanuja Punna; Constantine Christopolous; Victoria Wong; Analyn Yu; Gouqing Zhong; Joyce Li; Igor Stagljar; Elizabeth Conibear; Andrew Emili; Jack Greenblatt

Macromolecular assemblies involving membrane proteins (MPs) serve vital biological roles and are prime drug targets in a variety of diseases. Large-scale affinity purification studies of soluble-protein complexes have been accomplished for diverse model organisms, but no global characterization of MP-complex membership has been described so far. Here we report a complete survey of 1,590 putative integral, peripheral and lipid-anchored MPs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which were affinity purified in the presence of non-denaturing detergents. The identities of the co-purifying proteins were determined by tandem mass spectrometry and subsequently used to derive a high-confidence physical interaction map encompassing 1,726 membrane protein–protein interactions and 501 putative heteromeric complexes associated with the various cellular membrane systems. Our analysis reveals unexpected physical associations underlying the membrane biology of eukaryotes and delineates the global topological landscape of the membrane interactome.


Molecular Biology of the Cell | 2013

ER exit sites are physical and functional core autophagosome biogenesis components.

Martin Graef; Jonathan R. Friedman; Christopher Graham; Mohan Babu; Jodi Nunnari

ERES function is required for assembly of the autophagy machinery immediately downstream of the Atg1 kinase complex and is associated with formation of autophagosomes at every stage of the process. ERES are core components of the autophagy machinery for the biogenesis of autophagosomes.


Nature | 2015

Panorama of ancient metazoan macromolecular complexes.

Cuihong Wan; Blake Borgeson; Sadhna Phanse; Fan Tu; Kevin Drew; Greg W. Clark; Xuejian Xiong; Olga Kagan; Julian Kwan; Alexandr Bezginov; Kyle Chessman; Swati Pal; Graham L. Cromar; Ophelia Papoulas; Zuyao Ni; Daniel R. Boutz; Snejana Stoilova; Pierre C. Havugimana; Xinghua Guo; Ramy H. Malty; Mihail Sarov; Jack Greenblatt; Mohan Babu; W. Brent Derry; Elisabeth R. M. Tillier; John B. Wallingford; John Parkinson; Edward M. Marcotte; Andrew Emili

Macromolecular complexes are essential to conserved biological processes, but their prevalence across animals is unclear. By combining extensive biochemical fractionation with quantitative mass spectrometry, here we directly examined the composition of soluble multiprotein complexes among diverse metazoan models. Using an integrative approach, we generated a draft conservation map consisting of more than one million putative high-confidence co-complex interactions for species with fully sequenced genomes that encompasses functional modules present broadly across all extant animals. Clustering reveals a spectrum of conservation, ranging from ancient eukaryotic assemblies that have probably served cellular housekeeping roles for at least one billion years, ancestral complexes that have accrued contemporary components, and rarer metazoan innovations linked to multicellularity. We validated these projections by independent co-fractionation experiments in evolutionarily distant species, affinity purification and functional analyses. The comprehensiveness, centrality and modularity of these reconstructed interactomes reflect their fundamental mechanistic importance and adaptive value to animal cell systems.


Nature Biotechnology | 2014

The binary protein-protein interaction landscape of Escherichia coli

Seesandra V. Rajagopala; Patricia Sikorski; Ashwani Kumar; Roberto Mosca; James Vlasblom; Roland Arnold; Jonathan Franca-Koh; Suman B. Pakala; Sadhna Phanse; Arnaud Ceol; Roman Häuser; Gabriella Siszler; Stefan Wuchty; Andrew Emili; Mohan Babu; Patrick Aloy; Rembert Pieper; Peter Uetz

Efforts to map the Escherichia coli interactome have identified several hundred macromolecular complexes, but direct binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have not been surveyed on a large scale. Here we performed yeast two-hybrid screens of 3,305 baits against 3,606 preys (∼70% of the E. coli proteome) in duplicate to generate a map of 2,234 interactions, which approximately doubles the number of known binary PPIs in E. coli. Integration of binary PPI and genetic-interaction data revealed functional dependencies among components involved in cellular processes, including envelope integrity, flagellum assembly and protein quality control. Many of the binary interactions that we could map in multiprotein complexes were informative regarding internal topology of complexes and indicated that interactions in complexes are substantially more conserved than those interactions connecting different complexes. This resource will be useful for inferring bacterial gene function and provides a draft reference of the basic physical wiring network of this evolutionarily important model microbe.


BMC Genomics | 2008

Altered gene expression changes in Arabidopsis leaf tissues and protoplasts in response to Plum pox virus infection

Mohan Babu; Jonathan S. Griffiths; Tyng-Shyan Huang; Aiming Wang

BackgroundVirus infection induces the activation and suppression of global gene expression in the host. Profiling gene expression changes in the host may provide insights into the molecular mechanisms that underlie host physiological and phenotypic responses to virus infection. In this study, the Arabidopsis Affymetrix ATH1 array was used to assess global gene expression changes in Arabidopsis thaliana plants infected with Plum pox virus (PPV). To identify early genes in response to PPV infection, an Arabidopsis synchronized single-cell transformation system was developed. Arabidopsis protoplasts were transfected with a PPV infectious clone and global gene expression changes in the transfected protoplasts were profiled.ResultsMicroarray analysis of PPV-infected Arabidopsis leaf tissues identified 2013 and 1457 genes that were significantly (Q ≤ 0.05) up- (≥ 2.5 fold) and downregulated (≤ -2.5 fold), respectively. Genes associated with soluble sugar, starch and amino acid, intracellular membrane/membrane-bound organelles, chloroplast, and protein fate were upregulated, while genes related to development/storage proteins, protein synthesis and translation, and cell wall-associated components were downregulated. These gene expression changes were associated with PPV infection and symptom development. Further transcriptional profiling of protoplasts transfected with a PPV infectious clone revealed the upregulation of defence and cellular signalling genes as early as 6 hours post transfection. A cross sequence comparison analysis of genes differentially regulated by PPV-infected Arabidopsis leaves against uniEST sequences derived from PPV-infected leaves of Prunus persica, a natural host of PPV, identified orthologs related to defence, metabolism and protein synthesis. The cross comparison of genes differentially regulated by PPV infection and by the infections of other positive sense RNA viruses revealed a common set of 416 genes. These identified genes, particularly the early responsive genes, may be critical in virus infection.ConclusionGene expression changes in PPV-infected Arabidopsis are the molecular basis of stress and defence-like responses, PPV pathogenesis and symptom development. The differentially regulated genes, particularly the early responsive genes, and a common set of genes regulated by infections of PPV and other positive sense RNA viruses identified in this study are candidates suitable for further functional characterization to shed lights on molecular virus-host interactions.


Journal of General Virology | 2008

Association of the transcriptional response of soybean plants with soybean mosaic virus systemic infection

Mohan Babu; Alla Gagarinova; James E. Brandle; Aiming Wang

Compatible virus infection induces and suppresses host gene expression at the global level. These gene-expression changes are the molecular basis of symptom development and general stress and defence-like responses of the host. To assess transcriptional changes in soybean plants infected with soybean mosaic virus (SMV), the first soybean trifoliate leaf, immediately above the SMV-inoculated unifoliate leaf, was sampled at 7, 14 and 21 days post-inoculation (p.i.) and subjected to microarray analysis. The identified changes in gene expression in soybean leaves with SMV infection at different time points were associated with the observed symptom development. By using stringent selection criteria (>or=2- or <or=-2-fold change and a Q value of <or=0.05), 273 (1.5 %) and 173 (0.9 %) transcripts were identified to be up- and downregulated, respectively, from 18 613 soybean cDNAs on the array. The expression levels of many transcripts encoding proteins for hormone metabolism, cell-wall biogenesis, chloroplast functions and photosynthesis were repressed at 14 days p.i. and were associated with the highest levels of viral RNA in the host cells. A number of transcripts corresponding to genes involved in defence were either downregulated or not affected at the early stages of infection, but upregulated at the late stages, indicating that the plant immune response is not activated until the late time points of infection. Such a delayed defence response may be critical for SMV to establish its systemic infection.


PLOS Genetics | 2011

Genetic Interaction Maps in Escherichia coli Reveal Functional Crosstalk among Cell Envelope Biogenesis Pathways

Mohan Babu; J. Javier Díaz-Mejía; James Vlasblom; Alla Gagarinova; Sadhna Phanse; Chris Graham; Fouad Yousif; Huiming Ding; Xuejian Xiong; Anaies Nazarians-Armavil; Alamgir; Mehrab Ali; Oxana Pogoutse; Asaf Peer; Roland Arnold; Magali Michaut; John Parkinson; Ashkan Golshani; Chris Whitfield; Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb; Jack Greenblatt; Andrew Emili

As the interface between a microbe and its environment, the bacterial cell envelope has broad biological and clinical significance. While numerous biosynthesis genes and pathways have been identified and studied in isolation, how these intersect functionally to ensure envelope integrity during adaptive responses to environmental challenge remains unclear. To this end, we performed high-density synthetic genetic screens to generate quantitative functional association maps encompassing virtually the entire cell envelope biosynthetic machinery of Escherichia coli under both auxotrophic (rich medium) and prototrophic (minimal medium) culture conditions. The differential patterns of genetic interactions detected among >235,000 digenic mutant combinations tested reveal unexpected condition-specific functional crosstalk and genetic backup mechanisms that ensure stress-resistant envelope assembly and maintenance. These networks also provide insights into the global systems connectivity and dynamic functional reorganization of a universal bacterial structure that is both broadly conserved among eubacteria (including pathogens) and an important target.


Structure | 2010

Structure of a SLC26 Anion Transporter STAS Domain in Complex with Acyl Carrier Protein: Implications for E. coli YchM in Fatty Acid Metabolism

Mohan Babu; Jack Greenblatt; Andrew Emili; Natalie C. J. Strynadka; Reinhart A. F. Reithmeier; Trevor F. Moraes

Escherichia coli YchM is a member of the SLC26 (SulP) family of anion transporters with an N-terminal membrane domain and a C-terminal cytoplasmic STAS domain. Mutations in human members of the SLC26 family, including their STAS domain, are linked to a number of inherited diseases. Herein, we describe the high-resolution crystal structure of the STAS domain from E. coli YchM isolated in complex with acyl-carrier protein (ACP), an essential component of the fatty acid biosynthesis (FAB) pathway. A genome-wide genetic interaction screen showed that a ychM null mutation is synthetically lethal with mutant alleles of genes (fabBDHGAI) involved in FAB. Endogenous YchM also copurified with proteins involved in fatty acid metabolism. Furthermore, a deletion strain lacking ychM showed altered cellular bicarbonate incorporation in the presence of NaCl and impaired growth at alkaline pH. Thus, identification of the STAS-ACP complex suggests that YchM sequesters ACP to the bacterial membrane linking bicarbonate transport with fatty acid metabolism.

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