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This protocol is a port of the system described in Nielsen, Ottesen, etc. (2006) in Molecular Microbiology to mycobacteria.


===Background===
Two component system from phage: parS is a binding site for the ParB protein.  parS is inserted in the chromosome (a single copy appears to be sufficient).  ParB is expressed inducibly as a fusion protein with a GFP on a plasmid.
Two organisms already adapted thus: P1 phage, and pMT phage (from Y. pestis; uses a deletion of the the 23 N-terminal amino acids of ParB instead of the whole thing).

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