[Construction and application of Escherichia Coli-Riemerella anatipestifer efficient shuttle plasmid pFY02]

Abstract

Riemerella anatipestifer is a pathogen that mainly infects ducks, gooses, turkeys and other birds, causing septicemia and serositis. At present, the function of R. anatipestifer genes are studied by gene deletion and complementation. However, the shuttle plasmid pLMF03 used at present is inefficient for conjugation. Moreover, less restriction enzyme site can be used for cloning. It is not able to use for all the genes complementation. To solve this disadvantage, the conjugative transfer site, R. anatipestifer replication initiation gene, high expression promoter and a number of enzyme cutting sites were cloned into the plasmid pPM5, to generate the new shuttle plasmid pFY02. The shuttle plasmid pFY02 was stable in R. anatipestifer and had a high conjugative transfer efficiency. The R. anatipestifer tonB2 mutant strain could be complemented by shuttle plasmid pFY02 expressing tonB2, indicating that the shuttle plasmid can be used to the complementation of R. anatipestifer. Taken together, the new shuttle plasmid pFY02 constructed in this study replenishes the genetic tool for complementation.

Keywords: Riemerella anatipestifer; complementation gene; shuttle plasmid.