Wu S S, Kaiser D
Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.
J Bacteriol. 1996 Oct;178(19):5817-21. doi: 10.1128/jb.178.19.5817-5821.1996.
In-frame deletions of pilA and pilS were constructed in Myxococcus xanthus with a plasmid integration-excision strategy facilitated by sacB. sacB conferred sucrose sensitivity upon its M. xanthus host only when it lay in the same orientation as adjacent M. xanthus genes. Gene orientation also affected the efficiency of sucrose counterselection in the sucrose-sensitive strains. The deltapilA mutant lacked pili and social motility, while the deltapilS mutant showed no defect in either phenotype.
利用由sacB介导的质粒整合-切除策略,在黄色粘球菌中构建了pilA和pilS的框内缺失突变体。仅当sacB与相邻的黄色粘球菌基因处于相同方向时,它才会赋予其黄色粘球菌宿主蔗糖敏感性。基因方向也影响了蔗糖敏感菌株中蔗糖反选择的效率。ΔpilA突变体缺乏菌毛和群体运动性,而ΔpilS突变体在这两种表型上均无缺陷。