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Abstract

To identify bacterial genetic determinants for fitness in a soil environment, signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) was applied to a soil bacterium, ATCC 17616. This strain was randomly mutagenized by each of 36 different signature-tagged plasposons, and 36 mutants with different tags were grouped as a set. A total of 192 sets consisting of 6912 independent mutants were each inoculated into soil and incubated. Two-step STM screening based on quantitative real-time PCR of total DNAs extracted from the resulting soil samples using the tag-specific primers led to the selection of 39 mutant candidates that exhibited a reduction in relative competitive fitness during incubation in the soil, and 32 plasposon-insertion sites were determined. Among them, mutants having plasposon insertion in , or exhibited reduced fitness during incubation in soil when compared with the control strain. The deficiency in the soil fitness of the mutant was recovered by the introduction of the wild-type gene, indicating that the gene is one of the genetic determinants for fitness in the soil.

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  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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