Development of a transposon mutagenesis system for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, a slow-growing Mycobacterium, is the causative agent of Johne's disease. Although M. paratuberculosis is difficult to manipulate genetically, our laboratory has recently demonstrated the ability to introduce DNA into these bacteria by transformation and phage infection. In the current study we develop the first transposon mutagenesis system for M. paratuberculosis using the conditionally replicating mycobacteriophage phAE94 to introduce the mycobacterial transposon Tn5367. Southern blotting and sequence analysis demonstrated that the transposon insertion sites are distributed relatively randomly throughout the M. paratuberculosis genome. We constructed a comprehensive bank of 5620 insertion mutants using this transposon. The transposition frequency obtained using this delivery system was 1.0 x 10(-6) transposition events per recipient cell. Auxotrophic mutants were observed in this library at a frequency of 0.3%.

published proceedings

  • FEMS Microbiol Lett

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Harris, N. B., Feng, Z., Liu, X., Cirillo, S. L., Cirillo, J. D., & Barletta, R. G.

citation count

  • 41

complete list of authors

  • Harris, NB||Feng, Z||Liu, X||Cirillo, SL||Cirillo, JD||Barletta, RG

publication date

  • June 1999