Demonstration of allelic exchange in the slow-growing bacterium Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, and generation of mutants with deletions at the pknG, relA, and lsr2 loci

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1687-1695

  Kun, Taek Park ^a   Dahl, John L ^a   Bannantine, John P ^b   Barletta, Raúl G ^c   Ahn, Jongsam ^d   Allen, Andrew J ^a   Hamilton, Mary Jo ^a   Davis, William C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE CONTROL; GENES; LIPIDS; PATHOGENS;

ALLELIC EXCHANGE FREQUENCY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; RUMINANT; VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BOVIDS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; LSR2 GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PKNG GENE; RELA GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WASTING SYNDROME;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 40849135695     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01208-07     Document Type: Article

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