title: Transformation of a conditionally peptidoglycan-deficient mutant of Staphylococcus aureus with plasmid DNA.
abstract: A simple and reliable method for polyethylene glycol-induced plasmid transformation of a temperature-sensitive peptidoglycan-deficient mutant of Staphylococcus aureus is described. The procedure uses strains carrying the tofA372 mutation grown under conditions that yield osmotically fragile cells capable of efficient wall regeneration. The peptidoglycan-deficient cells were transformed with plasmids pE194 and pI258 at frequencies comparable with those obtained with protoplasts prepared with lysostaphin treatment. A readily portable tofA372 mutation was constructed by isolating an insertion of the erythromycin resistance transposon Tn551 adjacent to tofA372. tofA372 was shown by protoplast fusion and transformation analyses to be in the gene order hly-421-omega [Chr::Tn551]1059-tofA372-uraB232-omega [Chr::Tn916]1101-thrB106 on the chromosome of S. aureus NCTC 8325.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011.
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Nieuwlandt
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Pattee
mesh_terms: D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005838:Genotype; D007700:Kinetics; D009154:Mutation; D009996:Osmotic Fragility; D010457:Peptidoglycan / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D010957:Plasmids; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D013204:Staphylococcus Phages / Q000235:genetics; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D013696:Temperature; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D010457:Peptidoglycan