Identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae Genes Involved in Intestinal Colonization and Adhesion Using Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis
Open Access
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 70 (8), 4729-4734
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.70.8.4729-4734.2002
Abstract
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for nosocomial infections that initially colonize the intestinal tract of patients. Signature-tagged mutagenesis was used to identify genes required for this function. A library of 2,200 mutants was analyzed for the inability of the mutants to survive in a murine model of intestinal colonization and to adhere to human intestinal cells (Int-407) in vitro. Twenty-nine attenuated mutants were selected for further analyses after competition assays against the wild-type strain. Whatever the screening model, most of the transposon insertions occurred in genes involved in metabolic pathways, membrane transport, DNA metabolism, transcriptional regulation, and unknown functions. Only one mutant was attenuated in both the murine colonization and the in vitro adhesion models, and the sequence disrupted by the transposon had homology to adhesin-encoding genes of Haemophilus sp.Keywords
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