Horizontal Gene Transfers in Mycoplasmas (Mollicutes) [PDF]
Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2018 The class Mollicutes (trivial name "mycoplasma") is composed of wall-less bacteria with reduced genomes whose evolution was long thought to be only driven by gene losses. Recent evidences of massive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) within and across species provided a new frame to understand the successful adaptation of these minimal bacteria to a broad ...
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Mollicutes—Wall-less Bacteria with Internal Cytoskeletons
Journal of Structural Biology, 1998The structure and motility of the Mollicutes (Spiroplasma, Mycoplasma, and Acholeplasma) are briefly reviewed. The data are presented from the perspective of prokaryotic and eukaryotic motors, cytoskeletons, and cell motility. The Mollicutes are eubacteria derived from Clostridia by regressive evolution and genome reduction to produce the smallest and ...
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Amplification of 16S rRNA genes from culturable and nonculturable Mollicutes
Journal of Microbiological Methods, 1991exaly
Reconstruction of Transcription Control Networks in Mollicutes by High-Throughput Identification of Promoters [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Bacteria of the class Mollicutes have significantly reduced genomes and gene expression control systems. They are also efficient pathogens that can colonize a broad range of hosts including plants and animals.
Daria V Evsyutina, Tatiana A Semashko
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On the Trail of Stubborn Bacterial Yellowing Diseases [PDF]
MicroorganismsThis retrospective review traces personal encounters along the complex path of plant yellowing diseases—graft-transmissible disorders historically attributed to elusive viruses, but later linked to phloem-invading, wall-less bacteria known as Mollicutes.
Moshe Bar-Joseph
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Multiple Origins and Specific Evolution of CRISPR/Cas9 Systems in Minimal Bacteria (Mollicutes)
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 CRISPR/Cas systems provide adaptive defense mechanisms against invading nucleic acids in prokaryotes. Because of its interest as a genetic tool, the Type II CRISPR/Cas9 system from Streptococcus pyogenes has been extensively studied. It includes the Cas9
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Extracellular vesicles of minimalistic Mollicutes as mediators of immune modulation and horizontal gene transfer [PDF]
Communications BiologyExtracellular vesicles (EVs) are central components of bacterial secretomes, including the small, cell wall-less Mollicutes. Although EV release in Mollicutes has been reported, EV proteomic composition and function have not been explored yet.
Theresa Maria Wagner +7 more
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Transition of the genital mollicutes from the second to the third trimester of pregnancy and its association with adverse pregnancy outcomes in GDM women: a prospective, single-center cohort study from China [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthBackground The association of genital Mollicutes infection transition with adverse pregnancy outcomes was insignificant among general pregnant women, but there remains a paucity of evidence linking this relationship in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
Yan Xuan +7 more
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