1. Understanding Staphylococcal Nomenclature
Christina N. Krute and Jeffrey L. Bose
2. Restriction-Modification Systems as a Barrier for Genetic Manipulation of Staphylococcus aureus
Marat R. Sadykov
3. Complementation Plasmids, Inducible Gene-Expression Systems, and Reporters for Staphylococci
Ralph Bertram
4. De Novo Assembly of Plasmids Using Yeast Recombinational Cloning
Ameya Mashruwala and Jeffrey M. Boyd
5. Splicing by Overlap Extension PCR to Obtain Hybrid DNA Products
Justin A. Thornton
6. Method for Preparation and Electroporation of S. aureus and S. epidermidis
Melinda R. Grosser and Anthony R. Richardson
7. Rapid Isolation of DNA from Staphylococcus
Kelsey L. Krausz and Jeffrey L. Bose
8. Bacteriophage Transduction in Staphylococcus aureus: Broth-Based Method
Kelsey L. Krausz and Jeffrey L. Bose
9. Bacteriophage Transduction in Staphylococcus aureus
Michael E. Olson
10. Batch Transduction of Transposon Mutant Libraries for Rapid Phenotype Screening in Staphylococcus
Katherine L. Maliszewski
11. Conjugative Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus
Cortney R. Halsey and Paul D. Fey
12. Allelic Exchange
McKenzie K. Lehman, Jeffrey L. Bose, and Kenneth W. Bayles
13. Creation of Staphylococcal Mutant Libraries Using Transposon Tn917
Kelly C. Rice
14. Generation of a Transposon Mutant Library in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis Using Bursa aurealis
Vijaya Kumar Yajjala, Todd J. Widhelm, Jennifer L. Endres, Paul D. Fey, and Kenneth W. Bayles
15. Chemical and UV Mutagenesis
Jeffrey L. Bose
16. Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis
Batu K. Sharma-Kuinkel, Thomas H. Rude, and Vance G. Fowler, Jr
17. RNA-Sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus Messenger RNA
Ronan K. Carroll, Andy Weiss, and Lindsey N. Shaw
18. Quantitative Real-Time PCR (qPCR) Workflow for Analyzing Staphylococcus aureus Gene Expression
April M. Lewis and Kelly C. Rice
19. Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays
Sarah E. Rowe and James P. O'Gara
20. Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends for RNA transcript Sequencing in Staphylococcus
Eric Miller