Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Genome-wide high-density CRISPR interference screens reveal condition-specific metabolic vulnerabilities in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
doi: 10.1101/2025.08.12.669819
Figure Lengend Snippet: a , Schematic of the central carbon metabolism of P. aeruginosa PAO1. Metabolites are shown in black, enzymes and the reactions they potentially catalyze (arrows) are color-coded according to their CRISPRi scores: blue, no significant change under any conditions; dark orange, essential under all growth conditions; light orange, essential under minimal medium conditions in general; green, essential in glucose conditions only; magenta, essential in succinate conditions only. Parts of the EDEMP cycle that are derived from the EMP, ED or PP pathways are highlighted by different colors, as is the TCA cycle (light blue). Abbreviations for metabolites are defined in the main text or are as follows: DHAP, dihydroxyacetone phosphate; KDPG, 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate; E4P, erythrose-4-phosphate; S7P, sedoheptulose-7-phosphate; X5P, xylulose-5-phosphate; CIT, citrate; SUC, succinate; FUM, fumarate; MAL, malate. b , LFCs for all sgRNAs of central carbon metabolism genes/proteins mapped in panel a are shown for the three different growth conditions: LB-Miller, MOPS/glucose and MOPS/succinate. Each dot represents the log2 fold-change (LFC) of a single sgRNA calculated from four independent biological replicates, and the median of all sgRNA LFCs for one gene is indicated by a brown line. The grey dashed line marks the -1 LFC threshold. For genes, PA numbers (locus tags) as well as their annotations according to a reference genome annotation file ( Stover et al , 2000 ) are given at the bottom. Asterisks indicate genes that were generally essential as defined by our cutoff, but showed clear quantitative differences between glucose- and succinate-grown cells. GapN (PA2323) and GapB (PA3001) together with Pgk (PA0552), key enzymes in lower glycolysis which are differentially required during growth on glucose and succinate and discussed in the main text, are highlighted in bold and with green and magenta backgrounds, respectively.
Article Snippet: The sgRNA library was then cloned in pBx-Gm or pBx-Amp using Golden Gate assembly in a reaction containing 10 μl pBx_Gm (67 ng/μl) or pBx_AmpR (72 ng/μl), 10 μl sgRNA library PCR product (16 ng/μl), 4000 units of T4 DNA ligase (NEB #M0202S) and 120 units of BsaI-HFv2 (NEB #R3733S) in ligase buffer (NEB #B0202) in a total volume of 200 μl.
Techniques: Derivative Assay