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SUBMITTER: Roche D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2944505 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20100730 19
The diversity of the Escherichia coli species is in part due to the large number of mobile genetic elements that are exchanged between strains. We report here the identification of a new integrative and conjugative element (ICE) of the pKLC102/PAGI-2 family located downstream of the tRNA gene pheU in the E. coli strain BEN374. Indeed, this new region, which we called ICEEc2, can be transferred by conjugation from strain BEN374 to the E. coli strain C600. We were also able to transfer this region ...[more]