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© Perrine Bomme, Guillaume Duménil, Jean-Marc Panaud.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Neisseria meningitidis on epithelial cells
Publication : FEMS microbiology letters

Insertional inactivation of the lpxA gene involved in the biosynthesis of lipid A in Neisseria meningitidis resulted in lpxA/lpxA::aph-3′ heterodiploids.

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Published in FEMS microbiology letters - 12 Sep 2003

Zarantonelli ML, Carlier JP, Alonso JM, Taha MK,

Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 13129607

FEMS Microbiol Lett 2003 Sep; 226(1): 51-6

The lpxA gene is known to be involved in the biosynthesis of lipid A in Gram-negative bacteria and thought to be an essential gene. However, viable meningococcal lpxA mutants devoid of detectable endotoxin (lipooligosaccharide) have been reported. We characterised such mutants in strains of Neisseria meningitidis belonging to serogroups B and C using molecular and biochemical analysis. While lpxA mutants with no detectable or a low level of lipooligosaccharide could be obtained in N. meningitidis, the simple insertional inactivation of lpxA was not possible. In all mutants, we obtained lpxA/lpxA::aph-3′ heterodiploids harbouring one copy of the wild-type lpxA gene and one copy of the inactivated lpxA gene by insertion of the kanamycin resistance cassette, aph-3′. The absence of lipooligosaccharide in these mutants may result from a negative transdominance effect of a truncated LpxA protein on the wild-type LpxA protein.