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Recent genetic transfer between Lactococcus lactis and enterobacteria.

ABSTRACT: The genome sequence of Lactococcus lactis revealed that the ycdB gene was recently exchanged between lactococci and enterobacteria. The present study of ycdB orthologs suggests that L. lactis was probably the gene donor and reveals three instances of gene transfer to enterobacteria. Analysis of ycdB gene transfer between two L. lactis subspecies, L. lactis subsp. lactis and L. lactis subsp. cremoris, indicates that the gene can be mobilized, possibly by conjugation.

SUBMITTER: Bolotin A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC516620 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recent genetic transfer between Lactococcus lactis and enterobacteria.

Bolotin Alexander A Quinquis Benoit B Sorokin Alexei A Ehrlich Dusko S DS

Journal of bacteriology 20041001 19

The genome sequence of Lactococcus lactis revealed that the ycdB gene was recently exchanged between lactococci and enterobacteria. The present study of ycdB orthologs suggests that L. lactis was probably the gene donor and reveals three instances of gene transfer to enterobacteria. Analysis of ycdB gene transfer between two L. lactis subspecies, L. lactis subsp. lactis and L. lactis subsp. cremoris, indicates that the gene can be mobilized, possibly by conjugation. ...[more]

PMID: 15375152

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