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. 2020 Oct 23;49(D1):D677–D686. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa917

Table 1.

Contents of DEG 15

Domain of life Organism No. of essential genomic elements Method Saturated Reference Notea
Coding Noncoding
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 453 59 INSeq Yes (24)
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 157 1 INSeq Yes (24) In the mouse lung
Acinetobacter baylyi 499 Single-gene knockout Yes (57) Minimal medium
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans 59 Tn-seqb Yes (58) For coinfection with sympatric and allopatric microbes
Agrobacterium fabrum str. C58 361 11 Tn-seq Yes (25)
Bacillus subtilis 261 2 Single-gene knockout Yes (59)
Bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis BMB171 516 Tn-seq Yes (60)
Bacteroides fragilis 550 Tn-seq Yes (61)
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron 325 INSeq Yes (21)
Bifidobacterium breve 453 TraDIS Yes (62)
Brevundimonas subvibrioides 448 Tn-seq Yes (25)
Brevundimonas subvibrioides ATCC 15264 412 35 Tn-seq Yes (25)
Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 383 TraDIS Yes (63)
Burkholderia cenocepacia K56–2 508 Tn-seq Yes (64)
Burkholderia pseudomallei K96243 505 TraDIS Yes (65)
Burkholderia thailandensis 406 Tn-seq Yes (66)
Campylobacter jejuni 233 Tn-seq Yes (67)
Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni 81–176 384 Tn-seq Yes (68)
Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni NCTC 11168 166 Tn-seq Yes (68)
Caulobacter crescentus 480 532 Tn-seq Yes (69)
Escherichia coli 620 Genetic footprinting Yes (70)
Escherichia coli 303 Single-gene knockout Yes (71)
Escherichia coli 379 CRISPR Yes (72)
Escherichia coli O157:H7 1265 37 Tn-seq Yes (26)
Escherichia coli ST131 strain EC958 315 TraDIS Yes (73)
Francisella novicida 396 Tn-seq Yes (74)
Francisella tularensis Schu S4 453 TraDIS Yes (75)
Haemophilus influenzae 667 Genetic footprinting Yes (76)
Helicobacter pylori 344 MATT Yes (77)
Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis strain MAC109 230 Tn-seq Yes (78)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 614 TraSH Yes (79)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 774 Tn-seq Yes (80)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 742 35 Tn-seq Yes (27)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 461 Tn-seq Yes (81)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 601 Tn-seq Yes (82)
Mycoplasma genitalium 382 Tn-seq Yes (19,83)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae 342 34 Tn-seq Yes (28)
Mycoplasma pulmonis 321 Tn-seq Yes (84)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 751 Tn-seq Yes (85)
Porphyromonas gingivalis 463 Tn-seq Yes (86)
Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277 281 Tn-seq Yes (87)
Providencia stuartii strain BE2467 496 25 Tn-seq Yes (88)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 335 TraSH Yes (89)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 117 Tn-seq Yes (23)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 321 Tn-seq Yes (90)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 336 Tn-seq Yes (91)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 551 Tn-seq Yes (92)
Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000 465 Tn-seq Yes (93)
Rhodobacter sphaeroides 493 Tn-seq Yes (94)
Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009 522 Tn-seq Yes (95)
Salmonella enterica Typhimurium 306 15 TraDIS Yes (29)
Salmonella entericaserovar Typhi 356 TraDIS Yes (20)
Salmonella entericaserovar Typhi Ty2 358 24 TraDIS Yes (29)
Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium 105 Tn-seq Yes (96)
Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium SL1344 353 23 TraDIS Yes (29)
Salmonella typhimurium 490 Insertion-duplication Yes (97)
Shewanella oneidensis 403 Transposon mutagenesis Yes (98)
Sphingomonas wittichii 579 32 Tn-seq Yes (30)
Staphylococcus aureus 302 Antisense RNA No (99,100)
Staphylococcus aureus 351 TMDH Yes (101)
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus MRSA252 295 Tn-seq Yes (102)
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus MSSA476 305 Tn-seq Yes (102)
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus MW2 256 Tn-seq Yes (102)
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus NCTC 8325 288 Tn-seq Yes (102)
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus USA300 TCH1516 295 Tn-seq Yes (102)
Streptococcus agalactiae A909 317 Tn-seq Yes (103)
Streptococcus mutans UA159 197 6 Tn-seq Yes (104)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 113 Insertion-duplication No (105)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 133 allelic replacement mutagenesis No (106)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 72 Tn-seq Yes (31)
Streptococcus pyogenes MGAS5448 227 Tn-seq Yes (107)
Streptococcus pyogenes NZ131 241 Tn-seq Yes (107)
Streptococcus sanguinis 218 Single-gene knockout Yes (108)
Streptococcus suis 361 Tn-seq Yes (109)
Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 682 34 Tn-seq Yes (110)
Vibrio cholerae 789 Tn-seq Yes (111)
Vibrio cholerae C6706 343 Tn-seq Yes (112)
Vibrio vulnificus 316 Tn-seq Yes (113)
Archaea Methanococcus maripaludis 519 Tn-seq Yes (32)
Sulfolobus islandicus M.16.4 441 Tn-seq Yes (33)
Eukaryotes Arabidopsis thaliana 358 Single-gene knockout No (54)
Aspergillus fumigatus 35 Conditional promoter replacement No (114)
Bombyx mori 1006 CRISPR Yes (115)
Caenorhabditis elegans 44 Genetic mapping No (116)
Caenorhabditis elegans 294 RNA interference No (56)
Danio rerio 315 Insertional mutagenesis No (117)
Drosophila melanogaster 376 P-element insertion No (118)
Homo sapiens 2452 OMIM annotationc No (119)
Homo sapiens 1562 CRISPR Yes (14) Stem cells
Homo sapiens 1593 CRISPR Yes (14) HAP1 cells
Homo sapiens 1690 CRISPR Yes (120) Core essential genes among 17 cell lines
Homo sapiens 3230 Exome sequencing Yes (18)
Homo sapiens 2054 CRISPR Yes (12) KBM7 cells
Homo sapiens 2181 CRISPR Yes (12) HAP1 cells
Homo sapiens 1878 CRISPR Yes (11) KBM7 cells
Homo sapiens 1660 CRISPR Yes (11) K562 cells
Homo sapiens 1630 CRISPR Yes (11) Jiyoye cells
Homo sapiens 1461 CRISPR Yes (11) Raji cells
Homo sapiens 1196 CRISPR Yes (13) A375 cells
Homo sapiens 1892 CRISPR Yes (13) DLD1 cells
Homo sapiens 2196 CRISPR Yes (13) GBM cells
Homo sapiens 2073 CRISPR Yes (13) HCT116 cells
Homo sapiens 386 shRNA Yes (13) HCT116 cells
Homo sapiens 1696 CRISPR Yes (13) HeLa cells
Homo sapiens 2038 CRISPR Yes (13) RPE1 cells
Homo sapiens 92 Functional genomics No (15) Podocytes
Homo sapiens 79 CRISPR Yes (16) Hepatocellular carcinoma
Homo sapiens 191 CRISPR Yes (17) K562 cells
Komagataella phaffii GS115 753 Tn-seq Yes (121)
Mus musculus 435 Single-gene knockout No (53) Embryonic lethality
Mus musculus 1933 Single-gene knockout No (52) Preweaning lethality
Mus musculus 2136 MGI annotationd No (122)
Plasmodium falciparum 2680 transposon mutagenesis Yes (34)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1110 Single-gene knockout Yes (123) Six conditions including minimal medium
Schizosaccharomyces pombe 1260 Single-gene knockout Yes (124) Rich medium

aBacteria were cultured in rich media, unless otherwise indicated.

bTn-seq is a method that performs saturated transposon mutagenesis followed by parallel sequencing to determine the transposon integration sites. Tn-seq has many variants under different names, such as insertion sequencing (INSeq), Transposon Directed Insertion Sequencing (TraDIS), high-throughput insertion tracking by deep sequencing (HITS), transposon sequencing, Microarray tracking of transposon mutants (MATT), Transposon site hybridization (TraSH), transposon mutagenesis followed by Sanger sequencing, transposon mutagenesis followed by genetic footprinting, transposon-site hybridization, Transposon-Mediated Differential Hybridisation (TMDH).

cOMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (125).

dMGI: Mouse Genome Informatics (126).