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Variability of plasmid fitness effects contributes to plasmid persistence in bacterial communities
Nature Communications, 2021 Plasmid persistence in bacterial populations is strongly influenced by the fitness effects associated with plasmid carriage. However, plasmid fitness effects in wild-type bacterial hosts remain largely unexplored. In this study, we determined the fitness
Aida Alonso-del Valle +8 more
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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2010 SUMMARYPlasmids are key vectors of horizontal gene transfer and essential genetic engineering tools. They code for genes involved in many aspects of microbial biology, including detoxication, virulence, ecological interactions, and antibiotic resistance.
Smillie, C. +4 more
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 Plasmids and temperate phages are key contributors to bacterial evolution. They are usually regarded as very distinct. However, some elements, termed phage–plasmids, are known to be both plasmids and phages, e.g. P1, N15 or SSU5. The number, distribution,
E. Pfeifer +3 more
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Metagenomic analysis reveals gut plasmids as diagnosis markers for colorectal cancer
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 BackgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) is linked to distinct gut microbiome patterns. The efficacy of gut bacteria as diagnostic biomarkers for CRC has been confirmed. Despite the potential to influence microbiome physiology and evolution, the set of plasmids
Zhiyuan Cai +8 more
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Analysis of A Plasmid from Lactobacillus acidophilus and the Construction of Shuttle Vectors
Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2023 To analyze the endogenous plasmid pDX of Lactobacillus acidophilus, and construct the Escherichia coli-Lactobacillus acidophilus shuttle vector based on the plasmid.
Bintao GU +7 more
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Antibiotics, 2023 Background: The plasmid−mediated tigecycline resistance gene tet(X4) confers a high level of resistance to tigecycline. The experiment aims to investigate the prevalence and characterization of tet(X4) in Escherichia coli isolates from chicken and pig ...
Jie Yang +9 more
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Plasmid-to-plasmid recombination in Haemophilus influenzae [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1986 No recombination between plasmids was observed after conjugal transfer of a plasmid into a cell carrying another plasmid. Two types of such recombination took place after transformation, one type being Rec+ dependent and suggesting a preferred site of recombination. The other much rarer type was at least partially Rec+ independent.
M, Balganesh, J K, Setlow
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Implementation of a Practical Teaching Course on Protein Engineering
Biology, 2022 Protein Engineering is a highly evolved field of engineering aimed at developing proteins for specific industrial, medical, and research applications.
Luciana C. Gomes +2 more
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Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox.
Trends in Microbiology, 2021 The 'plasmid paradox' arises because, although plasmids are common features of bacterial genomes, theoretically they should not exist: rates of conjugation were believed insufficient to allow plasmids to persist by infectious transmission, whereas the ...
M. Brockhurst, E. Harrison
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 Salmonella is one of the most important zoonotic pathogens and a major cause of foodborne illnesses, posing a serious global public health hazard. The emergence of plasmid-mediated mcr genes in Salmonella has greatly reduced the clinical choice of ...
Xinran Sun +12 more
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