PMID:1679431
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Dempsey, JA, Litaker, W, Madhure, A, Snodgrass, TL and Cannon, JG (1991) Physical map of the chromosome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090 with locations of genetic markers, including opa and pil genes. J. Bacteriol. 173:5476-86 |
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| Abstract |
A physical map of the chromosome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090 has been constructed. Digestion of strain FA1090 DNA with NheI, SpeI, BglII, or PacI resulted in a limited number of fragments that were resolved by contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis. The estimated genome size was 2,219 kb. To construct the map, probes corresponding to single-copy chromosomal sequences were used in Southern blots of digested DNA separated on pulsed-field gels, to determine how the fragments from different digests overlapped. Some of the probes represented identified gonococcal genes, whereas others were anonymous cloned fragments of strain FA1090 DNA. By using this approach, a macrorestriction map of the strain FA1090 chromosome was assembled, and the locations of various genetic markers on the map were determined. Once the map was completed, the repeated gene families encoding Opa and pilin proteins were mapped. The 11 opa loci of strain FA1090 were distributed over approximately 60% of the chromosome. The pil loci were more clustered and were located in two regions separated by approximately one-fourth of the chromosome. |
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Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics; Base Sequence; Blotting, Southern; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes, Bacterial; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; Electrophoresis; Fimbriae, Bacterial; Genes, Bacterial; Molecular Sequence Data; Neisseria gonorrhoeae/genetics; Oligonucleotide Probes; Restriction Mapping |
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