title: Shuttle mutagenesis: a mini-transposon for producing PhoA fusions with exported proteins in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
abstract: Shuttle mutagenesis is a method for producing stable mini-transposon (mTn) insertions into the genome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcus, Gc) and other microbes. Using an mTn3 derivative, we have produced an mTn (mTnCmPhoA) which contains a phoA' gene lacking its N-terminal signal sequence useful for isolating genes which encode exported proteins. mTnCmPhoA was characterized in Gc and Escherichia coli using a cloned target containing the Gc genes, opaE1, pilA and pilB. PhoA+ Gc containing pilB::mTnCmPhoA insertions confirm that PilB is an exported protein in Gc. This system will be useful for isolating and characterizing extracytoplasmic virulence factors from Gc and other bacterial pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boyle-Vavra
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Seifert
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional / Q000379:methods*; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000235:genetics*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase