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:The transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) of Bacillus subtilis coordinates cellular functions of fundamental interest, including metabolism, biofilm formation, and sporulation. Here, we use unsupervised machine learning to modularize the transcriptome and quantitatively describe regulatory activity under diverse conditions, creating an unbiased summary of gene expression. We obtain 83 independently modulated gene sets that explain most of the variance in expression and demonstrate that 76% of them represent the effects of known regulators. The TRN structure and its condition-dependent activity uncover putative or recently discovered roles for at least five regulons, such as a relationship between histidine utilization and quorum sensing. The TRN also facilitates quantification of population-level sporulation states. As this TRN covers the majority of the transcriptome and concisely characterizes the global expression state, it could inform research on nearly every aspect of transcriptional regulation in B. subtilis.
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Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Rychel K,Sastry AV,Palsson BOdoi
10.1038/s41467-020-20153-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-12-11 00:00:00pages
6338issue
1issn
2041-1723pii
10.1038/s41467-020-20153-9journal_volume
11pub_type
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