Network-based genetic investigation of virulence-associated phenotypes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Scientific Reports
Chan Yeong KimInsuk Lee

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium that causes a wide range of infections. Recently, the spread of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains has seriously reduced antibiotic treatment options. Anti-virulence strategies, the objective of which is to target the virulence instead of the viability of the pathogen, have become widely accepted as a means of avoiding the emergence of new antibiotic-resistant strains. To increase the number of anti-virulence therapeutic options, it is necessary to identify as many novel virulence-associated genes as possible in MRSA. Co-functional networks have proved useful for mapping gene-to-phenotype associations in various organisms. Herein, we present StaphNet (www.inetbio.org/staphnet), a genome-scale co-functional network for an MRSA strain, S. aureus subsp. USA300_FPR3757. StaphNet, which was constructed by the integration of seven distinct types of genomics data within a Bayesian statistics framework, covers approximately 94% of the coding genome with a high degree of accuracy. We implemented a companion web server for network-based gene prioritization of the phenotypes of 31 different S. aureus strains. We demonstrated that StaphNet can effectively identify genes for vir...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
RNA-seq
pull-down
phylogenetic profiles
phylogenetic profile

Software Mentioned

EcoliNet
MetaCyc
kallisto
Cytoscape
BLASTP
DIAMOND
StaphNet
BLASTP BLASTP Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for Proteins
AureoWiki
igraph R package

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