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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 81, 期 7, 页码 2481-2488出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04190-14
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- German Research Council [TRR34, Ro2413/4-1]
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
Genetic manipulation of emerging bacterial pathogens, such as coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), is a major hurdle in clinical and basic microbiological research. Strong genetic barriers, such as restriction modification systems or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), usually interfere with available techniques for DNA transformation and therefore complicate manipulation of CoNS or render it impossible. Thus, current knowledge of pathogenicity and virulence determinants of CoNS is very limited. Here, a rapid, efficient, and highly reliable technique is presented to transfer plasmid DNA essential for genetic engineering to important CoNS pathogens from a unique Staphylococcus aureus strain via a specific Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage, Phi 187. Even strains refractory to electroporation can be transduced by this technique once donor and recipient strains share similar Phi 187 receptor properties. As a proof of principle, this technique was used to delete the alternative transcription factor sigma B (SigB) via allelic replacement in nasal and clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates at high efficiencies. The described approach will allow the genetic manipulation of a wide range of CoNS pathogens and might inspire research activities to manipulate other important pathogens in a similar fashion.
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