High-throughput bioluminescence-based mutant screening strategy for identification of bacterial virulence genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2166-2175

  Karsi, Attila ^a,b,d   Gülsoy, Nagihan ^c   Corb, Erin ^a   Dumpala, Pradeep R ^a   Lawrence, Mark L ^a,b  

^a Department of Basic Sciences   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

96 WELLS; BACTERIAL GENES; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; GENES ENCODING; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEMS; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; HOST RESISTANCES; IN CHANNELS; LIVE ATTENUATED VACCINES; MUTANT LIBRARIES; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; O POLYSACCHARIDES; SCREENING STRATEGIES; TRANSPOSON INSERTION SITES; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLES; VIRULENCE GENES; WELL PLATES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYMES; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORESCENCE; POLYSACCHARIDES; VACCINES;

GENES;

GLYCINE; LIVE VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIGMAE PROTEIN; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MUTATION; PATHOGEN; PLASMID; PROTEIN; SERUM; VACCINE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HOST RESISTANCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; ICTALURIDAE; LUMINESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; SERUM BACTERICIDAL TEST; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 63849099779     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02449-08     Document Type: Article

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