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SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Lopez C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4297665 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fernández-López Cris C Bravo Alicia A Ruiz-Cruz Sofía S Solano-Collado Virtu V Garsin Danielle A DA Lorenzo-Díaz Fabián F Espinosa Manuel M
Microbiology spectrum 20140901 5
Conjugation is a key mechanism for horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Some plasmids are not self-transmissible but can be mobilized by functions encoded <i>in trans</i> provided by other auxiliary conjugative elements. Although the transfer efficiency of mobilizable plasmids is usually lower than that of conjugative elements, mobilizable plasmidsare more frequently found in nature. In this sense, replication and mobilization can be considered as important mechanisms influencing plasmid promis ...[more]