Basic Characterization of Natural Transformation in Avibacterium paragallinarum.

ABSTRACT: Avibacterium paragallinarum is the pathogen involved in infectious coryza (IC), an acute infectious upper respiratory disease in chickens. The prevalence of IC has increased in China in recent years. There is a lack of reliable and effective procedures for gene manipulation, which has limited the research on the bacterial genetics and pathogenesis of A. paragallinarum. Natural transformation has been developed as a method of gene manipulation in Pasteurellaceae by the introduction of foreign genes or DNA fragments into bacterial cells, but there has been no report on natural transformation in A. paragallinarum. In this study, we analyzed the existence of homologous genetic factors and competence proteins underlying natural transformation in A. paragallinarum and establ

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10269479 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature