Mapping and manipulating the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome using a transcription factor overexpression-derived regulatory network.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Rustad, Tige R; Minch, Kyle J; Ma, Shuyi; Winkler, Jessica K; Hobbs, Samuel; Hickey, Mark; Brabant, William; Turkarslan, Serdar; Price, Nathan D; Baliga, Nitin S; Sherman, David R

Source:

Genome Biol, Volume 15, Issue 11, p.502 (2014)

Keywords:

Cloning, Molecular, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Gene Regulatory Networks, Humans, Isoniazid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Regulon, Transcription Factors, Transcription, Genetic, Transcriptome, Tuberculosis

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis senses and responds to the shifting and hostile landscape of the host. To characterize the underlying intertwined gene regulatory network governed by approximately 200 transcription factors of M. tuberculosis, we have assayed the global transcriptional consequences of overexpressing each transcription factor from an inducible promoter.RESULTS: We cloned and overexpressed 206 transcription factors in M. tuberculosis to identify the regulatory signature of each. We identified 9,335 regulatory consequences of overexpressing each of 183 transcription factors, providing evidence of regulation for 70% of the M. tuberculosis genome. These transcriptional signatures agree well with previously described M. tuberculosis regulons. The number of genes differentially regulated by transcription factor overexpression varied from hundreds of genes to none, with the majority of expression changes repressing basal transcription. Exploring the global transcriptional maps of transcription factor overexpressing (TFOE) strains, we predicted and validated the phenotype of a regulator that reduces susceptibility to a first line anti-tubercular drug, isoniazid. We also combined the TFOE data with an existing model of M. tuberculosis metabolism to predict the growth rates of individual TFOE strains with high fidelity.CONCLUSION: This work has led to a systems-level framework describing the transcriptome of a devastating bacterial pathogen, characterized the transcriptional influence of nearly all individual transcription factors in M. tuberculosis, and demonstrated the utility of this resource. These results will stimulate additional systems-level and hypothesis-driven efforts to understand M. tuberculosis adaptations that promote disease.

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Title	Gene	BioProject	GEO Series	Platform	Accession	Sample Method	Sample Type	References	Release Date	Repository
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TFOE_7691_1474c_C	Rv1474c Transcriptional regulator, TetR family	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426691	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_8380_1474c	Rv1474c Transcriptional regulator, TetR family	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426692	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_2914_1556	Rv1556 Transcriptional regulator, TetR family	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426693	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_7362_1556	Rv1556 Transcriptional regulator, TetR family	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426694	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_9978_1556	Rv1556 Transcriptional regulator, TetR family	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426695	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_6215_1560	Rv1560	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426696	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_7581_1560	Rv1560	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426697	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_8839_1560	Rv1560	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426698	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO
TFOE_0383_1626	Rv1626 response regulator	PRJNA254351	GSE59086	GPL14824	GSM1426699	Tiling Array	RNA	25232098	4-Jul-14	GEO