Method for identifying antibiotic targets by complemented sequencing

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9493770
APP PUB NO 20140135234A1
SERIAL NO

14071618

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Provided herein are methods, and related compositions for identifying a putative essential gene which serves as an antibiotic target in a bacterium, the method, in some embodiments, comprising (a) generating an antibiotic resistant mutant of the bacterium by a method comprising the step of selecting for growth in the presence of an antibiotic to produce an antibiotic resistant mutant clone (AbR mutant); (b) transforming the AbR mutant with one or more essential genes of the bacterium and a transposon which insertionally inactivates bacterial DNA to produce a pool of transposon mutants which are merodiploid for the one or more essential genes; (c) growing bacteria from the merodiploid pool in the presence of different amounts of the antibiotic to produce two or more test cultures; and (d) comparing the distribution of transposon insertions between the test cultures to identify a putative essential gene serving as a target of the antibiotic in the bacterium.

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DISCUVA LIMITEDCAMBRIDGE CB4 0WE

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Turner, Arthur Keith Cambridge, GB 11 44
Williams, David Hugh Cambridge, GB 24 296

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