Decomposition of transcriptional responses provides insights into differential antibiotic susceptibility
Sastry, A. V.; Dillon, N.; Poudel, S.; Hefner, Y.; Xu, S.; Szubin, R.; Feist, A.; Nizet, V.; Palsson, B.
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Responses of bacteria to antibiotic treatments depend on their environments. Differences between in vitro testing conditions and the physiological environments inside patients have resulted in poor antibiotic susceptibility predictions, contributing to treatment failures in the clinic. Here, we investigate how media composition affects antibiotic susceptibility in the laboratory strain E. coli K-12 MG1655, and contextualize these changes through machine learning of transcriptomics data. We show that complex transcriptional changes induced by different media or antibiotic treatment can be traced back to a few key regulators. Integration of results from machine learning with biochemical knowledge reveals fundamental shifts in respiration and iron availability that may explain media-dependent differential susceptibility to antibiotics. The data generation and analytical workflow used here can interrogate the regulatory state of a pathogen under any condition, and can be extended to additional strains and organisms for which data is available.
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