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- Title
Colony-live —a high-throughput method for measuring microbial colony growth kinetics—reveals diverse growth effects of gene knockouts in Escherichia coli.
- Authors
Takeuchi, Rikiya; Tamura, Takeyuki; Nakayashiki, Toru; Tanaka, Yuichirou; Muto, Ai; Wanner, Barry L.; Mori, Hirotada
- Abstract
Background Precise quantitative growth measurements and detection of small growth changes in highthroughput manner is essential for fundamental studies of bacterial cell. However, an inherent tradeoff for measurement quality in high-throughput methods sacrifices some measurement quality. A key challenge has been how to enhance measurement quality without sacrificing throughput. Results We developed a new high-throughput measurement system, termed Colony-live. Here we show that Colony-live provides accurate measurement of three growth values (lag time of growth (LTG), maximum growth rate (MGR), and saturation point growth (SPG)) by visualizing colony growth over time. By using a new normalization method for colony growth, Colony-live gives more precise and accurate growth values than the conventional method. We demonstrated the utility of Colony-live by measuring growth values for the entire Keio collection of Escherichia coli single-gene knockout mutants. By using Colonylive, we were able to identify subtle growth defects of single-gene knockout mutants that were undetectable by the conventional method quantified by fixed time-point camera imaging. Further, Colony-live can reveal genes that influence the length of the lag-phase and the saturation point of growth. Conclusions Measurement quality is critical to achieving the resolution required to identify unique phenotypes among a diverse range of phenotypes. Sharing high-quality genome-wide datasets should benefit many researchers who are interested in specific gene functions or the architecture of cellular systems. Our Colony-live system provides a new powerful tool to accelerate accumulation of knowledge of microbial growth phenotypes.
- Subjects
GENE knockout; ESCHERICHIA coli; BACTERIAL cells; PHENOTYPES; ESCHERICHIA coli diseases
- Publication
BMC Microbiology, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2180
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2180-14-171