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NATURE METHODS
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 86-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0629-y
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- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2017.0291, 2016.0077]
- European Research Council [616047]
- Swedish Research Council (VR) [642-2013-7841, 2016-06213]
- Swedish Research Council [2016-06213] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
- European Research Council (ERC) [616047] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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DuMPLING (dynamic mu-fluidic microscopy phenotyping of a library before in situ genotyping) enables screening of dynamic phenotypes in strain libraries and was used here to study genes that coordinate replication and cell division in Escherichia coli. Our ability to connect genotypic variation to biologically important phenotypes has been seriously limited by the gap between live-cell microscopy and library-scale genomic engineering. Here, we show how in situ genotyping of a library of strains after time-lapse imaging in a microfluidic device overcomes this problem. We determine how 235 different CRISPR interference knockdowns impact the coordination of the replication and division cycles of Escherichia coli by monitoring the location of replication forks throughout on average >500 cell cycles per knockdown. Subsequent in situ genotyping allows us to map each phenotype distribution to a specific genetic perturbation to determine which genes are important for cell cycle control. The single-cell time-resolved assay allows us to determine the distribution of single-cell growth rates, cell division sizes and replication initiation volumes. The technology presented in this study enables genome-scale screens of most live-cell microscopy assays.
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