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ArticlemBio2016

No-Go Zones for Mariner Transposition.

Brian J Akerley

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Article in mBio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Brian J AkerleyUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jackson, Mississippi, USA bakerley@umc.edu.

Funding

Mechanisms of Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis in the lungR01AI095740 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI AKERLEY, BRIAN, SHEN, HAO · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Mechanisms of Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis in the lungR56AI095740 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI AKERLEY, BRIAN, SHEN, HAO · 2011 to 2011
$424k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI095740NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI095740
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The property of transposons to randomly insert into target DNA has long been exploited for generalized mutagenesis and forward genetic screens. Newer applications that monitor the relative abundance of each transposon insertion in large libraries of mutants can be used to evaluate the roles in cellular fitness of all genes of an organism, provided that transposition is in fact random across all genes. In a recent article, Kimura and colleagues identified an important exception to the latter assumption [S. Kimura, T. P. Hubbard, B. M. Davis, M. K. Waldor, mBio 7(4):e01351-16, 2016, doi:10.1128/mBio.01351-16]. They provide evidence that the Mariner transposon exhibits locus-specific site preferences in the presence of the histone-like nucleoid structuring protein H-NS. This effect was shown to bias results for important virulence loci in Vibrio cholerae and to result in misidentification of genes involved in growth in vitro Fortunately, the bulk of this bacterium's genome was unaffected by this bias, and recognizing the H-NS effect allows filtering to improve the accuracy of the results.

Indexed as

DNA Transposable ElementsMutagenesisMutagenesis, InsertionalVibrio choleraeVirulenceDNA Transposable Elements

Identifiers

PMID27729512
PMCPMC5061874

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