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Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND:The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone USA300 contains a novel mobile genetic element, arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME), that contributes to its enhanced capacity to grow and survive within the host.
Maria Miragaia +11 more
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Distribution and Evolutionary History of the Mobile Genetic Element s2m in Coronaviruses
Diseases, 2016 The mobile genetic element s2m has been described in several families of single-stranded RNA viruses. The function remains elusive, but an increasing number of s2m-containing sequences are being deposited in publicly available databases.
Torstein Tengs, Christine M. Jonassen
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Chromosomal Integration of Huge and Complex blaNDM-Carrying Genetic Elements in Enterobacteriaceae
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 In this study, a detailed genetic dissection of the huge and complex blaNDM-carrying genetic elements and their related mobile genetic elements was performed in Enterobacteriaceae.
Xinhua Luo +11 more
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Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element?
Nature Communications, 2021 An outcome of phage infection, lateral transduction, has been shown to mobilize chromosomal genes between bacterial cells at rates that exceed those of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids.
James P. J. Hall
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mSphere, 2023 Vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VREfm) is a significant public health concern because of limited treatment options. Genomic surveillance can be used to monitor VREfm transmission and evolution.
Moutusee Islam +5 more
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The defense island repertoire of the Escherichia coli pan-genome.
PLoS Genetics, 2023 It has become clear in recent years that anti-phage defense systems cluster non-randomly within bacterial genomes in so-called "defense islands". Despite serving as a valuable tool for the discovery of novel defense systems, the nature and distribution ...
Dina Hochhauser +2 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Free-living bacteria have evolved multiple times to become host-restricted endosymbionts. The transition from a free-living to a host-restricted lifestyle comes with a number of different genomic changes, including a massive loss of genes.
Tamara Halter +3 more
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Cas9 targeted enrichment of mobile elements using nanopore sequencing
Nature Communications, 2021 Mobile element insertions (MEIs) are a source of repetitive genetic variation and can lead to genetic disorders. Here the authors use Cas9-targeted nanopore sequencing to efficiently saturate enrichment for known and non-reference MEIs.
Torrin L. McDonald +6 more
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Teratorn and its relatives – a cross-point of distinct mobile elements, transposons and viruses
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Mobile genetic elements (e.g., transposable elements and plasmids) and viruses display significant diversity with various life cycles, but how this diversity emerges remains obscure.
Yusuke Inoue, Hiroyuki Takeda
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A mobile genetic element increases bacterial host fitness by manipulating development
eLife, 2021 Horizontal gene transfer is a major force in bacterial evolution. Mobile genetic elements are responsible for much of horizontal gene transfer and also carry beneficial cargo genes.
Joshua M Jones +3 more
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