Neisseria meningitides is a Gram-negative bacterium which is an important causative agent of septicemia and meningitis.Numerous pathogenic bacteria contain luxS,which is required for autoinducer-2 production.Neisseria...Neisseria meningitides is a Gram-negative bacterium which is an important causative agent of septicemia and meningitis.Numerous pathogenic bacteria contain luxS,which is required for autoinducer-2 production.Neisseria meningitides contains a functional copy of luxS that is necessary for full meningococcal virulence.Neisseria meningitides DNA was extracted and its luxS gene was amplified by nested PCR.PCR product was purified and cloned in to pQE-30 expression vector.Recombinant plasmid was transformed and mass cultured.luxS was expressed in E.coli and confirmed by western blot analysis.In this study,N.meningitides luxS was amplified, cloned and expressed successfully.The sequencing of PCR product confirmed that amplified gene was luxS. Gene was expressed and observed in SDS-PAGE.Protein was reacted by his tag monoclonal antibody through western blot analysis.展开更多
基金supported by Vice Chancellor of Research of Shahid Beheshti University M.C.and was done in Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center
文摘Neisseria meningitides is a Gram-negative bacterium which is an important causative agent of septicemia and meningitis.Numerous pathogenic bacteria contain luxS,which is required for autoinducer-2 production.Neisseria meningitides contains a functional copy of luxS that is necessary for full meningococcal virulence.Neisseria meningitides DNA was extracted and its luxS gene was amplified by nested PCR.PCR product was purified and cloned in to pQE-30 expression vector.Recombinant plasmid was transformed and mass cultured.luxS was expressed in E.coli and confirmed by western blot analysis.In this study,N.meningitides luxS was amplified, cloned and expressed successfully.The sequencing of PCR product confirmed that amplified gene was luxS. Gene was expressed and observed in SDS-PAGE.Protein was reacted by his tag monoclonal antibody through western blot analysis.
