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SUBMITTER: Hertwig S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC99712 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hertwig S S Popp A A Freytag B B Lurz R R Appel B B
Applied and environmental microbiology 19990901 9
To study phage-mediated gene transfer in Yersinia, the ability of Yersinia phages to transduce naturally occurring plasmids was investigated. The transduction experiments were performed with a temperate phage isolated from a pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica strain and phage mixtures isolated from sewage. Small plasmids (4.3 and 5.8 kb) were transduced at a frequency of 10(-5) to 10(-7)/PFU. However, we could not detect the transduction of any indigenous virulence plasmid (ca. 72 kb) in pathoge ...[more]