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FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00063
Keywords
Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; transposon mutagenesis; microbial pathogenesis; bacterial physiology; mouse models
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- United States National Institutes of Health, Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [R01 AI059048, R21 AI103905]
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Transposon insertion provides a method for near-random mutation of bacterial genomes, and has been utilized extensively for the study of bacterial pathogenesis and biology. This approach is particularly useful for organisms that are relatively refractory to genetic manipulation, including Lyme disease Borrelia. In this review, progress to date in the application of transposon mutagenesis to the study of Borreha burgdorfen is reported. An effective Himarl-based transposon vector has been developed and used to acquire a sequence-defined library of nearly 4500 mutants in the infectious, moderately transformable B. burgdorferi B31 derivative 5A18NP1. Analysis of these transposon mutants using signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) and Tn-seq approaches has begun to yield valuable information regarding the genes important in the pathogenesis and biology of this organism.
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