Author:
Ohman D E,West M A,Flynn J L,Goldberg J B
Abstract
The availability of a technique for site-directed mutagenesis by gene replacement provides a powerful tool for genetic analysis in any bacterial species. We report here a general technique for gene replacement in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Genes on fragments of cloned P. aeruginosa DNA, altered by transposon mutagenesis, can be transduced into a recipient strain and can replace homologous genes in the P. aeruginosa genome. In this study we applied this technique to the construction of recA mutants of P. aeruginosa. A cloned segment of P. aeruginosa FRD1 DNA was isolated which encoded a protein analogous to the recA gene product of Escherichia coli. The P. aeruginosa recA gene was able to complement several defects associated with recA mutation in E. coli. Transposon Tn1 and Tn501 insertions in the cloned recA gene of P. aeruginosa were used to generate chromosomal recA mutants by gene replacement. These recA strains of P. aeruginosa were more sensitive to UV irradiation and methyl methane sulfonate and showed reduced recombination proficiency compared with the wild type. Also examined was the effect of recA mutations on the expression of alginate, a virulence trait. Alginate is a capsulelike polysaccharide associated with certain pulmonary infections, and its expression is typically unstable. The genetic mechanism responsible for the instability of alginate biosynthesis was shown to be recA independent.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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