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  text: "Synthesis of proteins – translation – is a fundamental process of life. Quantitative
    studies anchor translation into the context of bacterial physiology and reveal
    several mathematical relationships, called “growth laws,” which capture physiological
    feedbacks between protein synthesis and cell growth. Growth laws describe the
    dependency of the ribosome abundance as a function of growth rate, which can change
    depending on the growth conditions. Perturbations of translation reveal that bacteria
    employ a compensatory strategy in which the reduced translation capability results
    in increased expression of the translation machinery.\r\nPerturbations of translation
    are achieved in various ways; clinically interesting is the application of translation-targeting
    antibiotics – translation inhibitors. The antibiotic effects on bacterial physiology
    are often poorly understood. Bacterial responses to two or more simultaneously
    applied antibiotics are even more puzzling. The combined antibiotic effect determines
    the type of drug interaction, which ranges from synergy (the effect is stronger
    than expected) to antagonism (the effect is weaker) and suppression (one of the
    drugs loses its potency).\r\nIn the first part of this work, we systematically
    measure the pairwise interaction network for translation inhibitors that interfere
    with different steps in translation. We find that the interactions are surprisingly
    diverse and tend to be more antagonistic. To explore the underlying mechanisms,
    we begin with a minimal biophysical model of combined antibiotic action. We base
    this model on the kinetics of antibiotic uptake and binding together with the
    physiological response described by the growth laws. The biophysical model explains
    some drug interactions, but not all; it specifically fails to predict suppression.\r\nIn
    the second part of this work, we hypothesize that elusive suppressive drug interactions
    result from the interplay between ribosomes halted in different stages of translation.
    To elucidate this putative mechanism of drug interactions between translation
    inhibitors, we generate translation bottlenecks genetically using in- ducible
    control of translation factors that regulate well-defined translation cycle steps.
    These perturbations accurately mimic antibiotic action and drug interactions,
    supporting that the interplay of different translation bottlenecks partially causes
    these interactions.\r\nWe extend this approach by varying two translation bottlenecks
    simultaneously. This approach reveals the suppression of translocation inhibition
    by inhibited translation. We rationalize this effect by modeling dense traffic
    of ribosomes that move on transcripts in a translation factor-mediated manner.
    This model predicts a dissolution of traffic jams caused by inhibited translocation
    when the density of ribosome traffic is reduced by lowered initiation. We base
    this model on the growth laws and quantitative relationships between different
    translation and growth parameters.\r\nIn the final part of this work, we describe
    a set of tools aimed at quantification of physiological and translation parameters.
    We further develop a simple model that directly connects the abundance of a translation
    factor with the growth rate, which allows us to extract physiological parameters
    describing initiation. We demonstrate the development of tools for measuring translation
    rate.\r\nThis thesis showcases how a combination of high-throughput growth rate
    mea- surements, genetics, and modeling can reveal mechanisms of drug interactions.
    Furthermore, by a gradual transition from combinations of antibiotics to precise
    genetic interventions, we demonstrated the equivalency between genetic and chemi-
    cal perturbations of translation. These findings tile the path for quantitative
    studies of antibiotic combinations and illustrate future approaches towards the
    quantitative description of translation."
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acknowledgement: I thank Life Science Facilities for their continuous support with
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  the repairs and building of custom-designed laboratory equipment with the MIBA Machine
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  full_name: Kavcic, Bor
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  last_name: Kavcic
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  ama: 'Kavcic B. Perturbations of protein synthesis: from antibiotics to genetics
    and physiology. 2020. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657">10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657</a>'
  apa: 'Kavcic, B. (2020). <i>Perturbations of protein synthesis: from antibiotics
    to genetics and physiology</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657</a>'
  chicago: 'Kavcic, Bor. “Perturbations of Protein Synthesis: From Antibiotics to
    Genetics and Physiology.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657</a>.'
  ieee: 'B. Kavcic, “Perturbations of protein synthesis: from antibiotics to genetics
    and physiology,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020.'
  ista: 'Kavcic B. 2020. Perturbations of protein synthesis: from antibiotics to genetics
    and physiology. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.'
  mla: 'Kavcic, Bor. <i>Perturbations of Protein Synthesis: From Antibiotics to Genetics
    and Physiology</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657">10.15479/AT:ISTA:8657</a>.'
  short: 'B. Kavcic, Perturbations of Protein Synthesis: From Antibiotics to Genetics
    and Physiology, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020.'
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  text: "The regulation of gene expression is one of the most fundamental processes
    in living systems. In recent years, thanks to advances in sequencing technology
    and automation, it has become possible to study gene expression quantitatively,
    genome-wide and in high-throughput. This leads to the possibility of exploring
    changes in gene expression in the context of many external perturbations and their
    combinations, and thus of characterising the basic principles governing gene regulation.
    In this thesis, I present quantitative experimental approaches to studying transcriptional
    and protein level changes in response to combinatorial drug treatment, as well
    as a theoretical data-driven approach to analysing thermodynamic principles guiding
    transcription of protein coding genes.  \r\nIn the first part of this work, I
    present a novel methodological framework for quantifying gene expression changes
    in drug combinations, termed isogrowth profiling. External perturbations through
    small molecule drugs influence the growth rate of the cell, leading to wide-ranging
    changes in cellular physiology and gene expression. This confounds the gene expression
    changes specifically elicited by the particular drug. Combinatorial perturbations,
    owing to the increased stress they exert, influence the growth rate even more
    strongly and hence suffer the convolution problem to a greater extent when measuring
    gene expression changes. Isogrowth profiling is a way to experimentally abstract
    non-specific, growth rate related changes, by performing the measurement using
    varying ratios of two drugs at such concentrations that the overall inhibition
    rate is constant. Using a robotic setup for automated high-throughput re-dilution
    culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the budding yeast, I investigate all pairwise
    interactions of four small molecule drugs through sequencing RNA along a growth
    isobole. Through principal component analysis, I demonstrate here that isogrowth
    profiling can uncover drug-specific as well as drug-interaction-specific gene
    expression changes. I show that drug-interaction-specific gene expression changes
    can be used for prediction of higher-order drug interactions. I propose a simplified
    generalised framework of isogrowth profiling, with few measurements needed for
    each drug pair, enabling the broad application of isogrowth profiling to high-throughput
    screening of inhibitors of cellular growth and beyond. Such high-throughput screenings
    of gene expression changes specific to pairwise drug interactions will be instrumental
    for predicting the higher-order interactions of the drugs.\r\n\r\nIn the second
    part of this work, I extend isogrowth profiling to single-cell measurements of
    gene expression, characterising population heterogeneity in the budding yeast
    in response to combinatorial drug perturbation while controlling for non-specific
    growth rate effects. Through flow cytometry of strains with protein products fused
    to green fluorescent protein, I discover multiple proteins with bi-modally distributed
    expression levels in the population in response to drug treatment. I characterize
    more closely the effect of an ionic stressor, lithium chloride, and find that
    it inhibits the splicing of mRNA, most strongly affecting ribosomal protein transcripts
    and leading to a bi-stable behaviour of a small ribosomal subunit protein Rps22B.
    Time-lapse microscopy of a microfluidic culture system revealed that the induced
    Rps22B heterogeneity leads to preferential survival of Rps22B-low cells after
    long starvation, but to preferential proliferation of Rps22B-high cells after
    short starvation. Overall, this suggests that yeast cells might use splicing of
    ribosomal genes for bet-hedging in fluctuating environments. I give specific examples
    of how further exploration of cellular heterogeneity in yeast in response to external
    perturbation has the potential to reveal yet-undiscovered gene regulation circuitry.\r\n\r\nIn
    the last part of this thesis, a re-analysis of a published sequencing dataset
    of nascent elongating transcripts is used to characterise the thermodynamic constraints
    for RNA polymerase II (RNAP) elongation. Population-level data on RNAP position
    throughout the transcribed genome with single nucleotide resolution are used to
    infer the sequence specific thermodynamic determinants of RNAP pausing and backtracking.
    This analysis reveals that the basepairing strength of the eight nucleotide-long
    RNA:DNA duplex relative to the basepairing strength of the same sequence when
    in DNA:DNA duplex, and the change in this quantity during RNA polymerase movement,
    is the key determinant of RNAP pausing. This is true for RNAP pausing while elongating,
    but also of RNAP pausing while backtracking and of the backtracking length. The
    quantitative dependence of RNAP pausing on basepairing energetics is used to infer
    the increase in pausing due to transcriptional mismatches, leading to a hypothesis
    that pervasive RNA polymerase II pausing is due to basepairing energetics, as
    an evolutionary cost for increased RNA polymerase II fidelity.\r\n\r\nThis work
    advances our understanding of the general principles governing gene expression,
    with the goal of making computational predictions of single-cell gene expression
    responses to combinatorial perturbations based on the individual perturbations
    possible. This ability would substantially facilitate the design of drug combination
    treatments and, in the long term, lead to our increased ability to more generally
    design targeted manipulations to any biological system. "
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  full_name: Lukacisin, Martin
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  ama: Lukacisin M. Quantitative investigation of gene expression principles through
    combinatorial drug perturbation and theory. 2019. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392">10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392</a>
  apa: Lukacisin, M. (2019). <i>Quantitative investigation of gene expression principles
    through combinatorial drug perturbation and theory</i>. IST Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392</a>
  chicago: Lukacisin, Martin. “Quantitative Investigation of Gene Expression Principles
    through Combinatorial Drug Perturbation and Theory.” IST Austria, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392</a>.
  ieee: M. Lukacisin, “Quantitative investigation of gene expression principles through
    combinatorial drug perturbation and theory,” IST Austria, 2019.
  ista: Lukacisin M. 2019. Quantitative investigation of gene expression principles
    through combinatorial drug perturbation and theory. IST Austria.
  mla: Lukacisin, Martin. <i>Quantitative Investigation of Gene Expression Principles
    through Combinatorial Drug Perturbation and Theory</i>. IST Austria, 2019, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392">10.15479/AT:ISTA:6392</a>.
  short: M. Lukacisin, Quantitative Investigation of Gene Expression Principles through
    Combinatorial Drug Perturbation and Theory, IST Austria, 2019.
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  text: 'Antibiotic  resistance  can  emerge  spontaneously  through  genomic  mutation  and  render
    treatment   ineffective.   To   counteract   this process, in   addition   to   the   discovery   and
    description of resistance mechanisms,a deeper understanding of resistanceevolvabilityand
    its  determinantsis  needed. To address  this challenge,  this  thesisuncoversnew  genetic
    determinants   of   resistance   evolvability   using   a   customized   robotic   setup,
    exploressystematic   ways   in   which   resistance   evolution   is   perturbed   due   to
    dose-responsecharacteristics  of  drugs and  mutation  rate  differences,and  mathematically  investigates
    the evolutionary fate of one specific type of evolvability modifier -a stress-induced
    mutagenesis allele.We  find  severalgenes  which  strongly  inhibit  or  potentiate  resistance  evolution.  In  order
    to identify   them,   we   first developedan   automated   high-throughput   feedback-controlled
    protocol whichkeeps the population size and selection pressure approximately constant
    for hundreds  of  cultures  by  dynamically  re-diluting  the  cultures  and  adjusting  the  antibiotic
    concentration.  We  implementedthis  protocol  on  a  customized  liquid  handling  robot  and
    propagated  100  different  gene  deletion  strains  of Escherichia  coliin  triplicate  for  over  100
    generations  in  tetracycline  and  in  chloramphenicol,  and  comparedtheir  adaptation  rates.We  find  a  diminishing  returns  pattern,  where  initially  sensitive  strains  adapted  more
    compared to less sensitive ones.  Our data uncover that deletions of certain genes
    which do not  affect  mutation  rate,including  efflux  pump  components,  a  chaperone  and
    severalstructural  and regulatory  genes  can strongly  and  reproducibly  alterresistance  evolution.
    Sequencing   analysis of   evolved   populations   indicates   that   epistasis   with   resistance
    mutations  is  the  most  likelyexplanation. This  work  could  inspire  treatment  strategies  in
    which  targeted  inhibitors  of  evolvability  mechanisms  will  be  given  alongside  antibiotics  to
    slow down resistance evolution and extend theefficacy of antibiotics.We implemented  astochasticpopulation  genetics  model,
    toverifyways  in  which  general properties,  namely,  dose-response  characteristics  of  drugs  and  mutation  rates,  influence
    evolutionary  dynamics.  In  particular,  under  the  exposure  to  antibiotics  with  shallow  dose-response  curves,bacteria  have  narrower  distributions  of  fitness  effects  of  new  mutations.
    We  show  that in  silicothis  also  leads  to  slower  resistance  evolution.  We
    see and  confirm with experiments that increased mutation rates, apart from speeding
    up evolution, also leadto high reproducibility of phenotypic adaptation in a context
    of continually strong selection pressure.Knowledge  of  these  patterns  can  aid  in  predicting  the  dynamics  of  antibiotic
    resistance evolutionand adapting treatment schemes accordingly.Focusing on   a   previously   described   type   of   evolvability   modifier
    –a   stress-induced mutagenesis  allele –we  find  conditions  under  which  it  can  persist  in  a  population  under
    periodic  selectionakin  to  clinical  treatment. We  set  up  a  deterministic
    infinite  populationcontinuous  time  model  tracking  the  frequencies  of  a  mutator  and  resistance  allele  and
    evaluate  various  treatment  schemes  in  how  well  they  maintain  a stress-induced
    mutator allele. In particular,a high diversity  of stresses  is  crucial  for  the  persistence
    of the  mutator allele. This leads to a general trade-off where exactly those
    diversifying treatment schemes which  are  likely  to  decrease  levels  of  resistance  could  lead  to  stronger  selection  of  highly
    evolvable genotypes.In  the  long  run,  this  work  will  lead  to  a  deeper  understanding  of  the  genetic  and  cellular
    mechanisms involved in antibiotic resistance evolution and could inspire new strategies
    for slowing down its rate. '
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  apa: Lukacisinova, M. (2018). <i>Genetic determinants of antibiotic resistance evolution</i>.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072</a>
  chicago: Lukacisinova, Marta. “Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance Evolution.”
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072</a>.
  ieee: M. Lukacisinova, “Genetic determinants of antibiotic resistance evolution,”
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018.
  ista: Lukacisinova M. 2018. Genetic determinants of antibiotic resistance evolution.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Lukacisinova, Marta. <i>Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance Evolution</i>.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072">10.15479/AT:ISTA:th1072</a>.
  short: M. Lukacisinova, Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance Evolution,
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018.
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  text: 'Antibiotics have diverse effects on bacteria, including massive changes in
    bacterial gene expression. Whereas the gene expression changes under many antibiotics
    have been measured, the temporal organization of these responses and their dependence
    on the bacterial growth rate are unclear. As described in Chapter 1, we quantified
    the temporal gene expression changes in the bacterium Escherichia coli in response
    to the sudden exposure to antibiotics using a fluorescent reporter library and
    a robotic system. Our data show temporally structured gene expression responses,
    with response times for individual genes ranging from tens of minutes to several
    hours. We observed that many stress response genes were activated in response
    to antibiotics. As certain stress responses cross-protect bacteria from other
    stressors, we then asked whether cellular responses to antibiotics have a similar
    protective role in Chapter 2. Indeed, we found that the trimethoprim-induced acid
    stress response protects bacteria from subsequent acid stress. We combined microfluidics
    with time-lapse imaging to monitor survival, intracellular pH, and acid stress
    response in single cells. This approach revealed that the variable expression
    of the acid resistance operon gadBC strongly correlates with single-cell survival
    time. Cells with higher gadBC expression following trimethoprim maintain higher
    intracellular pH and survive the acid stress longer. Overall, we provide a way
    to identify single-cell cross-protection between antibiotics and environmental
    stressors from temporal gene expression data, and show how antibiotics can increase
    bacterial fitness in changing environments. While gene expression changes to antibiotics
    show a clear temporal structure at the population-level, it is unclear whether
    this clear temporal order is followed by every single cell. Using dual-reporter
    strains described in Chapter 3, we measured gene expression dynamics of promoter
    pairs in the same cells using microfluidics and microscopy. Chapter 4 shows that
    the oxidative stress response and the DNA stress response showed little timing
    variability and a clear temporal order under the antibiotic nitrofurantoin. In
    contrast, the acid stress response under trimethoprim ran independently from all
    other activated response programs including the DNA stress response, which showed
    particularly high timing variability in this stress condition. In summary, this
    approach provides insight into the temporal organization of gene expression programs
    at the single-cell level and suggests dependencies between response programs and
    the underlying variability-introducing mechanisms. Altogether, this work advances
    our understanding of the diverse effects that antibiotics have on bacteria. These
    results were obtained by taking into account gene expression dynamics, which allowed
    us to identify general principles, molecular mechanisms, and dependencies between
    genes. Our findings may have implications for infectious disease treatments, and
    microbial communities in the human body and in nature. '
acknowledgement: 'First of all, I would like to express great gratitude to my PhD
  supervisor Tobias Bollenbach. Through his open and trusting attitude I had the freedom
  to explore different scientific directions during this project, and follow the research
  lines of my interest. I am thankful for constructive and often extensive discussions
  and his support and commitment during the different stages of my PhD. I want to
  thank my committee members, Călin Guet, Terry Hwa and Nassos Typas for their interest
  and their valuable input to this project. Special thanks to Nassos for career guidance,
  and for accepting me in his lab. A big thank you goes to the past, present and affiliated
  members of the Bollenbach group: Guillaume Chevereau, Marjon de Vos, Marta Lukačišinová,
  Veronika Bierbaum, Qi Qin, Marcin Zagórski, Martin Lukačišin, Andreas Angermayr,
  Bor Kavčič, Julia Tischler, Dilay Ayhan, Jaroslav Ferenc, and Georg Rieckh. I enjoyed
  working and discussing with you very much and I will miss our lengthy group meetings,
  our inspiring journal clubs, and our common lunches. Special thanks to Bor for great
  mental and professional support during the hard months of thesis writing, and to
  Marta for very creative times during the beginning of our PhDs. May the ‘Bacterial
  Survival Guide’ decorate the walls of IST forever! A great thanks to my friend and
  collaborator Georg Rieckh for his enthusiasm and for getting so involved in these
  projects, for his endurance and for his company throughout the years. Thanks to
  the FriSBi crowd at IST Austria for interesting meetings and discussions. In particular
  I want to thank Magdalena Steinrück, and Anna Andersson for inspiring exchange,
  and enjoyable time together. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the cover for
  Cell Systems: The constructive input from Tobias Bollenbach, Bor Kavčič, Georg Rieckh,
  Marta Lukačišinová, and Sebastian Nozzi, and the professional implementation by
  the graphic designer Martina Markus from the University of Cologne. Thanks to all
  my office mates in the first floor Bertalanffy building throughout the years: for
  ensuring a pleasant working atmosphere, and for your company! In general, I want
  to thank all the people that make IST such a great environment, with the many possibilities
  to shape our own social and research environment. I want to thank my family for
  all kind of practical support during the years, and my second family in Argentina
  for their enthusiasm. Thanks to my brother Bernhard and my sister Martina for being
  great siblings, and to Helena and Valentin for the joy you brought to my life. My
  deep gratitude goes to Sebastian Nozzi, for constant support, patience, love and
  for believing in me. '
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  chicago: Mitosch, Karin. “Timing, Variability and Cross-Protection in Bacteria –
    Insights from Dynamic Gene Expression Responses to Antibiotics.” Institute of
    Science and Technology Austria, 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_862">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_862</a>.
  ieee: K. Mitosch, “Timing, variability and cross-protection in bacteria – insights
    from dynamic gene expression responses to antibiotics,” Institute of Science and
    Technology Austria, 2017.
  ista: Mitosch K. 2017. Timing, variability and cross-protection in bacteria – insights
    from dynamic gene expression responses to antibiotics. Institute of Science and
    Technology Austria.
  mla: Mitosch, Karin. <i>Timing, Variability and Cross-Protection in Bacteria – Insights
    from Dynamic Gene Expression Responses to Antibiotics</i>. Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria, 2017, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_862">10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_862</a>.
  short: K. Mitosch, Timing, Variability and Cross-Protection in Bacteria – Insights
    from Dynamic Gene Expression Responses to Antibiotics, Institute of Science and
    Technology Austria, 2017.
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