Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud 5, Box 6, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Dec;76(23):7870-7. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01671-10. Epub 2010 Oct 8.
A versatile natural transformation protocol was established for and successfully applied to 18 of the 19 Streptococcus thermophilus strains tested. The efficiency of the protocol enables the use of in vitro-amplified mutagenesis fragments to perform deletion or insertion of large genetic fragments. Depending on the phenotype linked to the mutation, markerless mutants can be selected either in two steps, i.e., resistance marker insertion and excision using an adapted Cre-loxP system, or in one step using a powerful positive screening procedure as illustrated here for histidine prototrophy.
建立了一种通用的自然转化方案,并成功应用于 19 株嗜热链球菌中的 18 株。该方案的效率使得可以使用体外扩增的诱变片段来进行大片段基因的缺失或插入。根据与突变相关的表型,可以使用两种方法选择无标记突变体,即使用改良的 Cre-loxP 系统插入和切除抗性标记,或者使用这里所示的强大的阳性筛选程序一步选择,如组氨酸营养缺陷型。