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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-3-30
pubmed:abstractText
A shuttle plasmid was developed that is capable of replicating both in Escherichia coli and in Rhodococcus rhodnii, a bacterial symbiont of the Chagas' disease vector Rhodnius prolixus. We have been able to transform R. rhodnii with this plasmid, infect aposymbiotic R. prolixus with the transformed symbionts, select with the antibiotic thiostrepton, and re-isolate genetically altered symbionts from the insects following successive molts. Symbiotic bacteria are potentially valuable as vehicles for the stable introduction of foreign genes into insects with the goal of eventually altering the ability of the insect to transmit a pathogenic agent.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0002-9637
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
195-200
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Transformation of an insect symbiont and expression of a foreign gene in the Chagas' disease vector Rhodnius prolixus.
pubmed:affiliation
Yale-MacArthur Center for Molecular Parasitology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't