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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 127, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/56216
Keywords
Immunology; Issue 127; Transposon mutagenesis; transposon insertion library; bacterial mutant library; bacterial conjugation; bacterial mating; bacterial sex; Tn10; loss of function mutation; enterobacteria; Escherichia coli; Shigella flexneri
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- Massey University in New Zealand
- Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology (Project Battle X) at the University of Basel, Switzerland
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Transposon mutagenesis is a method that allows gene disruption via the random genomic insertion of a piece of DNA called a transposon. The protocol below outlines a method for high efficiency transfer between bacterial strains of a plasmid harboring a transposon containing a kanamycin resistance marker. The plasmid-borne transposase is encoded by a variant tnp gene that inserts the transposon into the genome of the recipient strain with very low insertional bias. This method thus allows the creation of large mutant libraries in which transposons have been inserted into unique genomic positions in a recipient strain of either Escherichia coli or Shigella flexneri bacteria. By using bacterial conjugation, as opposed to other methods such as electroporation or chemical transformation, large libraries with hundreds of thousands of unique clones can be created. This yields high-density insertion libraries, with insertions occurring as frequently as every 4-6 base pairs in non-essential genes. This method is superior to other methods as it allows for an inexpensive, easy to use, and high efficiency method for the creation of a dense transposon insertion library. The transposon library can be used in downstream applications such as transposon sequencing (Tn-Seq), to infer genetic interaction networks, or more simply, in mutational (forward genetic) screens.
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