Development of a markerless deletion system for the fish-pathogenic bacterium flavobacterium psychrophilum

Gómez E.; Álvarez B.; Duchaud E.; Guijarro J.A.

dc.contributor.author	Gómez E.
dc.contributor.author	Álvarez B.
dc.contributor.author	Duchaud E.
dc.contributor.author	Guijarro J.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-02T22:19:52Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-02T22:19:52Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier	10.1371/journal.pone.0117969
dc.identifier.citation	10, 2, -
dc.identifier.issn	19326203
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12728/4791
dc.description	Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a Gram-negative fish pathogen that causes important economic losses in aquaculture worldwide. Although the genome of this bacterium has been determined, the function and relative importance of genes in relation to virulence remain to be established. To investigate their respective contribution to the bacterial pathogenesis, effective tools for gene inactivation are required. In the present study, a markerless gene deletion system has been successfully developed for the first time in this bacterium. Using this method, the F. psychrophilum fcpB gene, encoding a predicted cysteine protease homologous to Streptococcus pyogenes streptopain, was deleted. The developed system involved the construction of a conjugative plasmid that harbors the flanking sequences of the fcpB gene and an I-SceI meganuclease restriction site. Once this plasmid was integrated in the genome by homologous recombination, the merodiploid was resolved by the introduction of a plasmid expressing I-SceI under the control of the fpp2 F. psychrophilum inducible promoter. The resulting deleted fcpB mutant presented a decrease in extracellular proteolytic activity compared to the parental strain. However, there were not significant differences between their LD50 in an intramuscularly challenged rainbow trout infection model. The mutagenesis approach developed in this work represents an improvement over the gene inactivation tools existing hitherto for this "fastidious" bacterium. Unlike transposon mutagenesis and gene disruption, gene markerless deletion has less potential for polar effects and allows the mutation of virtually any non-essential gene or gene clusters. Copyright: © 2015 Gómez et al.
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Public Library of Science
dc.title	Development of a markerless deletion system for the fish-pathogenic bacterium flavobacterium psychrophilum
dc.type	Article

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