Article
Isolation and characterization of transposon mutants of Staphylococcus epidermidis deficient in capsular polysaccharide/adhesin and slime.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1993
Muller E, Hübner J, Gutierrez N, Takeda S, Goldmann D A, Pier G B
Abstract excerpt
We used transposon (Tn) mutagenesis to study the role of capsular polysaccharide/adhesin (PS/A) and slime in adherence of Staphylococcus epidermidis to catheters. pLTV1, containing Tn917-LTV1, was transformed into S. epidermidis M187 by protoplast fusion with S. aureus RN4220(pLTV1), creating M18...
Topics
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Escherichia coli
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Transformation, Bacterial