Transposon Insertion Mutagenesis for Archaeal Gene Discovery




Kiljunen Saija, Pajunen Maria, Savilahti Harri

Reeves Andrew

2017

In Vitro Mutagenesis - Methods and Protocols

Methods in Molecular Biology

1498

1498

309

320

12

978-1-4939-6470-3

978-1-4939-6472-7

1064-3745

DOIhttps://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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