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Mobile genetic elements of Staphylococcus aureus [PDF]

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2010
Bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus are successful as commensal organisms or pathogens in part because they adapt rapidly to selective pressures imparted by the human host. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play a central role in this adaptation process and are a means to transfer genetic information (DNA) among and within bacterial species ...
Malachowa, Natalia, DeLeo, Frank R.
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Mobile Carbapenemase Genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the major concerns in clinical settings impelling a great challenge to antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections caused by the pathogen.
Eun-Jeong Yoon, Seok Hoon Jeong
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Transmission of antibiotic resistance genes through mobile genetic elements in Acinetobacter baumannii and gene-transfer prevention.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Antibiotic resistance is a major global public health concern. Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen that has emerged as a global threat because of its high levels of resistance to many antibiotics, particularly those considered as last-resort
J. Jeon, K. Jang, Jung Hun Lee, Lin-Woo Kang, S. Lee   +4 more
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Analysis of two pheromone-responsive conjugative multiresistance plasmids carrying the novel mobile optrA locus from Enterococcus faecalis [PDF]

, 2019
Background: The acquired optrA gene, which encodes a ribosomal protection protein of the ABC-F family, can confer cross-resistance to linezolid and florfenicol, posing a serious therapeutic challenge to both human and veterinary medicine.
Chen, Yu-Xia, Du, Xiang-Dang, Li, Dexi, Ouyang, Wuqing, Schwarz, Stefan, Shan, Xinxin, Shang, Yanhong, Zhang, Su-Mei   +7 more
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Characterisation of mobile genetic elements in Mycoplasma hominis with the description of ICEHo-II, a variant mycoplasma integrative and conjugative element

Mobile DNA, 2020
Background Mobile genetic elements are found in genomes throughout the microbial world, mediating genome plasticity and important prokaryotic phenotypes.
Birgit Henrich, Stephanie Hammerlage, Sebastian Scharf, Diana Haberhausen, Ursula Fürnkranz, Karl Köhrer, Lena Peitzmann, Pier Luigi Fiori, Joachim Spergser, Klaus Pfeffer, Alexander T. Dilthey   +10 more
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DIVE: a reference-free statistical approach to diversity-generating and mobile genetic element discovery

Genome Biology, 2023
Diversity-generating and mobile genetic elements are key to microbial and viral evolution and can result in evolutionary leaps. State-of-the-art algorithms to detect these elements have limitations.
Jordi Abante, Peter L. Wang, Julia Salzman   +2 more
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PCR-based detection of mobile genetic elements in total community DNA [PDF]

, 2000
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Bailey, M., Barr, M., Borin, S., Brabhu, J., Dejonghe, W., Dirk Van Elsas, J., Dronen, K., Greated, A., Grohmann, E., Heuer, H., Karagouni, A., Krogerrecklenfort, E., Niewint, J., Nikolakopoulou, D., Osborn, M., Sandaa, R., Smalla, K., Sobecky, P., Tebbe, C., Thomas, C., Top, E., Turner, S., Wolters, A., Young, J.P.W.   +23 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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Functional Traits Co-Occurring with Mobile Genetic Elements in the Microbiome of the Atacama Desert [PDF]

, 2019
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play an essential role in bacterial adaptation and evolution. These elements are enriched within bacterial communities from extreme environments. However, very little is known if specific genes co-occur with MGEs in extreme
Airo, Alessandro, Schloter, Michael, Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Sáenz, Johan S., Vestergaard, Gisle   +4 more
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Mobile genetic element-encoded putative DNA primases composed of A-family polymerase—SSB pairs

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023
Mobile genetic elements can encode a wide variety of genes that support their own stability and mobility as well as genes that provide accessory functions to their hosts.
Phoebe A. Rice
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