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SUBMITTER: Parsons JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2168741 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parsons Jennifer A JA Bannam Trudi L TL Devenish Rodney J RJ Rood Julian I JI
Journal of bacteriology 20070824 21
The conjugative tetracycline resistance plasmid pCW3 is the paradigm conjugative plasmid in the anaerobic gram-positive pathogen Clostridium perfringens. Two closely related FtsK/SpoIIIE homologs, TcpA and TcpB, are encoded on pCW3, which is significant since FtsK domains are found in coupling proteins of gram-negative conjugation systems. To develop an understanding of the mechanism of conjugative transfer in C. perfringens, we determined the role of these proteins in the conjugation process. M ...[more]