Title

High-throughput insertion tracking by deep sequencing for the analysis of bacterial pathogens

UMMS Affiliation

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Information Services

Publication Date

2011-03-23

Document Type

Book Chapter

Subjects

Animals; Bacteria; Biotin; Biotinylation; Chromosomes, Bacterial; DNA Primers; DNA Transposable Elements; DNA, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Haemophilus influenzae; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Mutagenesis, Insertional; Polyadenylation; Reproducibility of Results; Sequence Analysis, DNA

Disciplines

Microbiology | Molecular Genetics

Abstract

Whole-genome techniques toward identification of microbial genes required for their survival and growth during infection have been useful for studies of bacterial pathogenesis. The advent of massively parallel sequencing platforms has created the opportunity to markedly accelerate such genome-scale analyses and achieve unprecedented sensitivity, resolution, and quantification. This chapter provides an overview of a genome-scale methodology that combines high-density transposon mutagenesis with a mariner transposon and deep sequencing to identify genes that are needed for survival in experimental models of pathogenesis. Application of this approach to a model pathogen, Haemophilus influenzae, has provided a comprehensive analysis of the relative role of each gene of this human respiratory pathogen in a murine pulmonary model. The method is readily adaptable to nearly any organism amenable to transposon mutagenesis.

DOI of Published Version

10.1007/978-1-61779-089-8_15

Source

Methods Mol Biol. 2011;733:209-22. Link to article on publisher's website

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

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PubMed ID

21431773

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