The distribution of plasmids that carry virulence and resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus is lineage associated. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus is major human and animal pathogen. Plasmids often carry resistance genes and virulence genes that can disseminate through S. aureus populations by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mechanisms. Sequences of S.
Lindsay, JA, McCarthy, AJ
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Diverse Fluoroquinolone Resistance Plasmids From Retail Meat E. coli in the United States
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Fluoroquinolones are used to treat serious bacterial infections, including those caused by Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. The emergence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) represent a new challenge to the successful treatment of ...
Gregory H. Tyson +4 more
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Enterococcus faecalis an Emerging Microbial Menace in Dentistry-An Insight into the In-Silico Detection of Drug Resistant Genes and Its Protein Diversity [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018 Introduction: Antimicrobial drug resistance is evolving as a serious threat to mankind due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics and lack of awareness about the mechanisms involved in drug resistance.
Vijayashree J Priyadharsini +2 more
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Recovering Escherichia coli Plasmids in the Absence of Long-Read Sequencing Data
Microorganisms, 2021 The incidence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant E. coli strains has risen in the past years. Antibiotic resistance in E. coli is often mediated by acquisition and maintenance of plasmids. The study of E.
Julian A. Paganini +4 more
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Bacteriophages limit the existence conditions for conjugative plasmids [PDF]
, 2015 Bacteriophages are a major cause of bacterial mortality and impose strong selection on natural bacterial populations, yet their effects on the dynamics of conjugative plasmids have rarely been tested.
Brockhurst, Michael A. +7 more
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Antiparallel plasmid-plasmid pairing may control P1 plasmid replication. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1991 The copy number of the P1 plasmid replicon is stringently controlled, giving only one or two copies per newborn cell. Control is achieved by the action of the copy-control locus incA, which contains nine repeats of the 19-basepair binding site for the plasmid-encoded initiator protein RepA.
Ann L. Abeles, Stuart Austin
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COPLA, a taxonomic classifier of plasmids
BMC Bioinformatics, 2020 Plasmids are mobile genetic elements, key in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance, virulence determinants and other adaptive traits in bacteria. Obtaining a robust method for plasmid classification is necessary to better understand the genetics and
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Expression and regulatory effects on cancer cell behavior of NELL1 and NELL2 in human renal cell carcinoma [PDF]
, 2015 We thank Professors Michael Rehli, Yoshiaki Ito, and Kristian Helin for gifting plasmids, Dr. Alasdair MacKenzie (University of Aberdeen) for helpful discussion, and Mr. Takashi Mizukami, Ms. Ryoko Tokuda, and Ms.
Mizokami, Atsushi +6 more
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Plasmids in Rhizobia: The Role of Nonsymbiotic Plasmids
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1996 Peer ...
Mercado-Blanco, Jesús, Toro, Nicolás
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Plasmid persistence: costs, benefits, and the plasmid paradox [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2018 Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA elements that can be found throughout bacteria, as well as in other domains of life. Nonetheless, the evolutionary processes underlying the persistence of plasmids are incompletely understood. Bacterial plasmids may encode genes for traits that are sometimes beneficial to their hosts, such as antimicrobial resistance,
Carroll, Amanda C., Wong, Alex
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