Construction of a complete set of Neisseria meningitidis mutants and its use for the phenotypic profiling of this human pathogen

The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis causes life-threatening meningitis and sepsis. Here, Muir et al. construct a complete collection of defined mutants in protein-coding genes of this organism, which they use to identify its essential genome and to shed light on the functions of multiple genes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alastair Muir, Ishwori Gurung, Ana Cehovin, Adelme Bazin, David Vallenet, Vladimir Pelicic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19347-y