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Materiaals<br />

and Meethods<br />

<strong>Gene</strong> <strong>regulation</strong> by RR09 <strong>in</strong> S. <strong>pneumoniae</strong><br />

Pneumoococcal<br />

stra<strong>in</strong>s<br />

WWild-type<br />

SS.<br />

pneumonniae<br />

stra<strong>in</strong>ss<br />

D39 (= NCTC N 74666;<br />

serotypee<br />

2) and TI IGR4 (=<br />

ATCC BBAA-334;<br />

serotype 4) ) were usedd<br />

<strong>in</strong> this stu udy. The rr09 derivaative<br />

of TIG GR4 was<br />

construccted<br />

by <strong>in</strong>seertional<br />

<strong>in</strong>acctivation<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g<br />

an eryth hromyc<strong>in</strong> reesistance<br />

caassette,<br />

as described d<br />

previouusly<br />

for D399<br />

rr09 (3). Pneumococccal<br />

stra<strong>in</strong>s were grownn<br />

on Colummbia<br />

blood base b agar<br />

supplemmented<br />

withh<br />

5% (vol/vvol)<br />

defibr<strong>in</strong>nated<br />

sheep p blood (annd<br />

supplemeented<br />

with 1 µg/ml<br />

erythrommyc<strong>in</strong><br />

for thhe<br />

rr09 mutant<br />

stra<strong>in</strong>s) . For RNA isolation annalyses,<br />

culttures<br />

were grown g <strong>in</strong><br />

Todd-HHewitt<br />

brothh<br />

supplemennted<br />

with 5 g/liter yea ast extract ( (THY brothh)<br />

or <strong>in</strong> bra a<strong>in</strong> heart<br />

<strong>in</strong>fusionn<br />

broth (BHHI<br />

broth) wiithout<br />

erythromyc<strong>in</strong><br />

un ntil they reaached<br />

the deesired<br />

turbid dity. For<br />

construcction<br />

of thee<br />

sp0063 muutant<br />

(annottated<br />

spr0062<br />

<strong>in</strong> R6), aapproximateely<br />

100-bp portions<br />

of up- aand<br />

downstrream<br />

regionns<br />

of the targgeted<br />

sequence<br />

were ammplified<br />

by PCR us<strong>in</strong>g g primers<br />

50L (TCTATGATTTGGTATT<br />

TTCTATCG GTAGG) aand<br />

50M<br />

(GGCGGCGCCTGA<br />

AGGTAAGGATCATGT<br />

TAAAGGT TAACC) and primers 50N<br />

(TCTTAACCTCAGGGCGCGCC<br />

CACTGCCTTTATCTTCTGGTTTGCTTGG)<br />

and 50O<br />

(CAAAATTTAGCA<br />

AGTAAATTTCTTCTGG<br />

GG), respe ectively. Thhese<br />

fragmeents<br />

were jo o<strong>in</strong>ed by<br />

overlap extension PCR due tto<br />

overlap i<strong>in</strong><br />

the 50 M and 50N primers. TThis<br />

proced dure also<br />

<strong>in</strong>troducced<br />

an AscII<br />

site betweeen<br />

the upstrream<br />

and do ownstream sequences vvia<br />

the prim mers. The<br />

fusion PPCR<br />

producct<br />

was cloneed<br />

<strong>in</strong>to TOPPO-pCR4<br />

(I Invitrogen) and confirmmed<br />

by sequ uenc<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

The speect<strong>in</strong>omyc<strong>in</strong><br />

n resistancee<br />

cassette frrom<br />

pDL27 78 was clonned<br />

<strong>in</strong>to thee<br />

AscI site, and the<br />

result<strong>in</strong>gg<br />

construct was used foor<br />

transformmation<br />

of D3 39. Spect<strong>in</strong>omyc<strong>in</strong>-resistant<br />

colon nies were<br />

verifiedd<br />

by PCR. TThis<br />

mutatioon<br />

resulted <strong>in</strong> replacem ment of nuccleotides<br />

1776<br />

to 676 of f sp0063<br />

with thee<br />

spect<strong>in</strong>ommyc<strong>in</strong><br />

resistaance<br />

cassettee.<br />

Mice an<br />

F<br />

Olac, B<br />

anesthet<br />

10 6 nd <strong>in</strong>fectionns<br />

Female outtbred<br />

MF1 mice (bodyy<br />

weight, 25 2 to 30 g) ) were purcchased<br />

from m Harlan<br />

Bicester, Unnited<br />

K<strong>in</strong>gddom.<br />

For ppneumonia<br />

<strong>in</strong>fection, 99-week-old<br />

mice were e lightly<br />

tized with 22.5%<br />

(vol/vvol)<br />

halothanne,<br />

after wh hich an <strong>in</strong>feection<br />

dose consist<strong>in</strong>g of 1.0 x<br />

CFUU<br />

of wild-ttype<br />

stra<strong>in</strong> TIGR4 andd<br />

the ∆rr09 9 mutant reesuspended<br />

<strong>in</strong> 50 µl of o sterile<br />

phosphaate-bufferedd<br />

sal<strong>in</strong>e (PBBS)<br />

was admm<strong>in</strong>istered<br />

<strong>in</strong> n the nostriils<br />

of mice hheld<br />

vertica ally (12).<br />

At predeeterm<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

times<br />

after i<strong>in</strong>fection,<br />

grroups<br />

of mice<br />

were saccrificed<br />

by ccervical<br />

disl location,<br />

and blood<br />

sampless<br />

were remooved<br />

by carrdiac<br />

punctu ure us<strong>in</strong>g a 1-ml syr<strong>in</strong>gge.<br />

Broncho oalveolar<br />

lung lavvage<br />

and saampl<strong>in</strong>g<br />

off<br />

the lungs were perfo ormed as ddescribed<br />

prreviously<br />

(1 13). The<br />

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