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Horizontal Gene Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Biofilms

Antibiotics, 2023
Most bacteria attach to biotic or abiotic surfaces and are embedded in a complex matrix which is known as biofilm. Biofilm formation is especially worrisome in clinical settings as it hinders the treatment of infections with antibiotics due to the ...
C. Michaelis, E. Grohmann
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Structural basis for recognition of transcriptional terminator structures by ProQ/FinO domain RNA chaperones

Nature Communications, 2022
In this work, the authors determine the crystal structure of a ProQ/FinO RNA chaperone bound to its RNA target. This provides insight into how this family of bacterial proteins recognize transcriptional terminator structures.
Hyeong Jin Kim, Mazzen Black, Ross A. Edwards, Flora Peillard-Fiorente, Rashmi Panigrahi, David Klingler, Reiner Eidelpes, Ricarda Zeindl, Shiyun Peng, Jikun Su, Ayat R. Omar, Andrew M. MacMillan, Christoph Kreutz, Martin Tollinger, Xavier Charpentier, Laetitia Attaiech, J. N. Mark Glover   +16 more
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Staphylococcus equorum plasmid pKS1030-3 encodes auxiliary biofilm formation and trans-acting gene mobilization systems

Scientific Reports, 2023
The foodborne bacterium Staphylococcus equorum strain KS1030 harbours plasmid pSELNU1, which encodes a lincomycin resistance gene. pSELNU1 undergoes horizontal transfer between bacterial strains, thus spreading antibiotic resistance.
Sojeong Heo, Seung-Eun Oh, Gawon Lee, Jinwook Lee, Nam-Chul Ha, Che Ok Jeon, Keuncheol Jeong, Jong-Hoon Lee, Do-Won Jeong   +8 more
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Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) drives microbial adaptation but is often under the control of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) whose interests are not necessarily aligned with those of their hosts.
Matthieu Haudiquet, J. M. de Sousa, M. Touchon, E. Rocha   +3 more
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Outer Membrane Vesicles Derived from Klebsiella pneumoniae Are a Driving Force for Horizontal Gene Transfer

bioRxiv, 2021
Gram-negative bacteria release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) into the extracellular environment. Recent studies recognized these vesicles as vectors to horizontal gene transfer, however the parameters that mediate OMVs transfer within bacterial ...
Federica Dell’Annunziata, C. Dell’Aversana, N. Doti, G. Donadio, F. Dal Piaz, Viviana Izzo, A. De Filippis, M. Galdiero, L. Altucci, G. Boccia, M. Galdiero, V. Folliero, G. Franci   +12 more
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NEW CODING SEQUENCES FORMATION BY VIRUSES WITH THE HELP OF HORIZONTAL TRANSFER AND GENE DUPLICATION [PDF]

Annals of Mechnikov's Institute, 2019
Besides the gene co-optation discusses in the previous article, viruses are able to form the cellular genome through horizontal gene transfer and by the copy number increase of the cellular genes with the help of amplification or retrocopies production ...
Popov N. N., Sklyar N. I., Kolotova T. Yu., Davidenko M. B., Voronkina I. A.   +4 more
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The Routes of Emergence of Life from LUCA during the RNA and Viral World: A Conspectus

Life, 2015
How did life emerge on Earth? The aim of the Network of Researchers on Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Cellular Ancestor (NoR HGT & LUCA) is to understand how the genetics of LUCAs were reorganised prior to the advent of the three ...
Sohan Jheeta
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Amino acid sequence associated with bacteriophage recombination site helps to reveal genes potentially acquired through horizontal gene transfer

BMC Bioinformatics, 2020
Background Horizontal gene transfer, i.e. the acquisition of genetic material from nonparent organism, is considered an important force driving species evolution. Many cases of horizontal gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes have been registered,
Maria A. Daugavet, Sergey V. Shabelnikov, Olga I. Podgornaya   +2 more
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Adsorption and Oxidation of Aromatic Amines on Metal(II) Hexacyanocobaltate(III) Complexes: Implication for Oligomerization of Exotic Aromatic Compounds

Inorganics, 2017
Based on the hypothesis on the presence of double metal cyanides in the primordial oceans, a series of nano-sized metal(II) hexacyanocobaltate(III) (MHCCo) with the general formula: M3[Co(CN)6]2•xH2O (where M = Zn, Fe, Ni and Mn) has been synthesized ...
Rachana Sharma, Md. Asif Iqubal, Sohan Jheeta, Kamaluddin   +3 more
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Shaping the Landscape of Eukaryotic Gene Expression: Horizontal Gene Transfer

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in prokaryotes refers to the movement of genes and genetic information between two organisms. This usually results in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria. Vertical gene transfer(VGT), on the other hand,
Ruby Dhar , Arun Kumar, Subhradip Karmakar   +2 more
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