Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
GENETIC TOOLS FOR TAGGING GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA WITH MCHERRY FOR VISUALIZATION IN VITRO AND IN NATURAL HABITATS, BIOFILM AND PATHOGENICITY STUDIES
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2011
Языканглийский
  • Validov Shamil Zavdatovich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Lagendijk EL, Validov S, Lamers GEM, de Weert S, Bloemberg GV. 2010. Genetic tools for tagging Gram-negative bacteria with mCherry for visualization in vitro and in natural habitats, biofilm and pathogenicity studies. Fems Microbiology Letters 305:81-90.
    Annotation Live-cell imaging techniques are essential to gain a better understanding of microbial functioning in natural systems, for example in biofilms. Autofluorescent proteins, such as the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the red fluorescent protein (DsRed), are valuable tools for studying microbial communities in their natural environment. Because of the functional limitations of DsRed such as slow maturation and low photostability, new and improved variants were created such as mCherry. In this study, we developed genetic tools for labeling Gram-negative bacteria in order to visualize them in vitro and in their natural environment without the necessity of antibiotic pressure for maintenance. mcherry was cloned into two broad host-range cloning vectors and a pBK-miniTn7 transposon under the constitutive expression of the tac promoter. The applicability of the different constructs was shown in Escherichia coli, various Pseudomonas spp. and Edwardsiella tarda. The expression of mcherry was
    Keywords Pseudomonas, Live-cell imaging
    The name of the journal FEMS Microbiology Letters
    URL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01916.x/pdf
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