A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Transposon Insertion Mutagenesis for Archaeal Gene Discovery
Authors: Kiljunen Saija, Pajunen Maria, Savilahti Harri
Editors: Reeves Andrew
Publication year: 2017
Book title : In Vitro Mutagenesis - Methods and Protocols
Series title: Methods in Molecular Biology
Number in series: 1498
Volume: 1498
First page : 309
Last page: 320
Number of pages: 12
ISBN: 978-1-4939-6470-3
eISBN: 978-1-4939-6472-7
ISSN: 1064-3745
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6472-7_20
Archaea constitute the third domain of life, but studies on their physiology and other features have lagged behind bacteria and eukarya, largely due to the challenging biology of archaea and concomitant difficulties in methods development. The use of genome-wide en masse insertion mutagenesis is one of the most efficient means to discover the genes behind various biological functions, and such a methodology is described in this chapter for a model archaeon Haloferax volcanii. The strategy successfully employs efficient in vitro transposition in combination with gene targeting in vivo via homologous recombination. The methodology is general and should be transferable to other archaeal species.
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