Abstract
We present a conceptual review of transposition-based strategies for determining gene essentiality on a one-by-one basis in bacteria. Many of the techniques are described in greater detail in individual chapters of this volume. The second section of this chapter deals with transposition-deletion—based strategies for determining the essentiality of blocks of genes. This latter approach has the potential to experimentally define the minimal required genome for a given organism.
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Reznikoff, W.S., Winterberg, K.M. (2008). Transposon-Based Strategies for the Identification of Essential Bacterial Genes. In: Osterman, A.L., Gerdes, S.Y. (eds) Microbial Gene Essentiality: Protocols and Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 416. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-321-9_2
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