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Study Links 'Mad Cow' Strain to Gay Partner Rights"-- Andrew Solovay
We used DNA microarrays spotted with 22,594 human cDNAs (representing about half of the transcripts in the human genome) to examine the host transcriptional response of cultured human intestinal epithelial cells (Caco-2) over an 8-hour period following infection by L. monocytogenes wild-type strain 10403S.
In addition, a polymorphism in the isogenic strain resulted in an eighth large-scale sequence difference between Releases 2 and 3. This polymorphic tandem duplication consists of more than 30 kb of sequence bounded by hobo and cruiser transposable elements; half of the BACs mapping to this location contain one copy of the repeat and the other half have two.
Construction of σ E-over-expressing strain of M. smegmatis
To determine whether the β-hemolytic positive sagA/pel variants recovered from the kidney of an infected mouse maintained the Tn 917 transposon in the original location, we performed XL-PCR and Southern blot analysis as well as sequencing the region near the Tn 917 insertion using chromosomal DNA from the parental sagA/pel strain and the kidney-recovered isolates as templates.