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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991 Jun 15;88(12):5355-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.12.5355.

Use of a transposon with luciferase as a reporter to identify environmentally responsive genes in a cyanobacterium.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

C P Wolk, Y Cai, J M Panoff

Affiliations

  1. MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312, USA.

PMID: 11607193 PMCID: PMC51871 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.12.5355

Abstract

Anabaena, a filamentous cyanobacterium, is of developmental interest because, when deprived of fixed nitrogen, it shows patterned differentiation of N2-fixing cells called heterocysts. To help elucidate its early responses to a decrease in nitrogen, we used a derivative of transposon Tn5 to generate transcriptional fusions of promoterless bacterial luciferase genes, luxAB, to the Anabaena genome. Genes that responded to removal of fixed nitrogen or to other environmental shifts by increased or decreased transcription were identified by monitoring the luminescence of colonies from transposon-generated libraries. The Tn5 derivative transposed in Anabaena at ca. 1-4 x 10(-5) per cell and permitted high-resolution mapping of its position and orientation in the genome and facile cloning of contiguous genomic DNA.

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