Ruiz Lorena, van Sinderen Douwe
Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, IPLA-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain.
APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2016:51-62. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9570-7_5.
Random transposon mutagenesis allows for relatively rapid, genome-wide surveys to detect genes involved in functional traits, by performing screens of mutant libraries. This approach has been widely applied to identify genes responsible for activities of interest in multiple eukaryote and prokaryote organisms, although most studies on microorganisms have focused on pathogenic and clinically relevant bacteria. In this chapter we describe the implementation of an in vitro Tn5-based transposome strategy to generate a large collection of random mutants in the gut commensal Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003, and discuss considerations when applying this mutagenesis system to other Bifidobacterium species or strains of interest.
随机转座子诱变可通过对突变体文库进行筛选,实现相对快速的全基因组检测,以发现参与功能性状的基因。尽管大多数关于微生物的研究都集中在致病性和临床相关细菌上,但这种方法已广泛应用于鉴定多种真核生物和原核生物中具有感兴趣活性的相关基因。在本章中,我们描述了基于Tn5的体外转座体策略的实施,以在肠道共生菌短双歧杆菌UCC2003中生成大量随机突变体,并讨论将这种诱变系统应用于其他双歧杆菌物种或感兴趣菌株时的注意事项。