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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2017

High-throughput Parallel Sequencing to Measure Fitness of Leptospira interrogans Transposon Insertion Mutants During Golden Syrian Hamster Infection.

Kristel Lourdault, James Matsunaga, Karen V Evangelista, David A Haake

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kristel LourdaultVeterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles; kristel.lourdault@gmail.com.
James MatsunagaVeterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles.
Karen V EvangelistaVeterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles.
David A HaakeVeterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Departments of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles; Departments of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles; Departments of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles.

Funding

Outer Membrane Proteins of Pathogenic Leptospira SpeciesR01AI034431 · NIAID · BRENTWOOD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GOMES-SOLECKI, MARIA, HAAKE, DAVID A · 2003 to 2015
$4.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI034431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this manuscript, we describe a transposon sequencing (Tn-Seq) technique to identify and quantify Leptospira interrogans mutants altered in fitness during infection of Golden Syrian hamsters. Tn-Seq combines random transposon mutagenesis with the power of high-throughput sequencing technology. Animals are challenged with a pool of transposon mutants (input pool), followed by harvesting of blood and tissues a few days later to identify and quantify the number of mutants in each organ (output pools). The output pools are compared to the input pool to evaluate the in vivo fitness of each mutant. This approach enables screening of a large pool of mutants in a limited number of animals. With minor modifications, this protocol can be performed with any animal model of leptospirosis, reservoir host models such as rats and acute infection models such as hamsters, as well as in vitro studies. Tn-Seq provides a powerful tool to screen for mutants with in vivo and in vitro fitness defects.

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AnimalsCricetinaeDisease Models, AnimalHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingLeptospira interrogansLeptospirosisMesocricetusMutagenesis, InsertionalPolymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID29286406
PMCPMC5755599

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