Abstract
Transposon mutagenesis is one of the most widely used strategies to generate a large number of random mutations within a bacterial genome and then to precisely identify the mutated sites. The generation of sequence-defined transposon mutant libraries that are composed of a collection of different mutants, each containing a single transposon insertion mutation within nearly all of the nonessential genes within the genome, is a rapid and reliable way to enhance the study of gene function. In this chapter, we describe the process to generate a sequence-defined transposon mutant library in Staphylococcus aureus utilizing the mariner-based bursa aurealis transposon.
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Endres, J.L., Yajjala, V.K., Fey, P.D., Bayles, K.W. (2019). Construction of a Sequence-Defined Transposon Mutant Library in Staphylococcus aureus . In: Ricke, S., Park, S., Davis, M. (eds) Microbial Transposon Mutagenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2016. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9570-7_3
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