In:
Infection and Immunity, American Society for Microbiology, Vol. 73, No. 2 ( 2005-02), p. 872-877
Kurzfassung:
Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen that is also able to kill the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . We constructed a 2,950-member Tn 917 transposon insertion library in S. aureus strain NCTC 8325. Twenty-one of these insertions exhibited attenuated C. elegans killing, and of these, 12 contained insertions in different genes or chromosomal locations. Ten of these 12 insertions showed attenuated killing phenotypes when transduced into two different S. aureus strains, and 5 of the 10 mutants correspond to genes that have not been previously identified in signature-tagged mutagenesis studies. These latter five mutants were tested in a murine renal abscess model, and one mutant harboring an insertion in nagD exhibited attenuated virulence. Interestingly, Tn 917 was shown to have a very strong bias for insertions near the terminus of DNA replication.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0019-9567
,
1098-5522
DOI:
10.1128/IAI.73.2.872-877.2005
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
American Society for Microbiology
Publikationsdatum:
2005
ZDB Id:
1483247-1
