Diverse mobilization strategies facilitate transfer of non-conjugative mobile genetic elements

JP Ramsay, N Firth - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
… and antimicrobial-resistance determinants, but for most … plasmids lacking mobilization genes
carry oriT sequences that mimic … A cis-acting site termed the origin-of-transfer (oriT) on the …

Evolving origin-of-transfer sequences on staphylococcal conjugative and mobilizable plasmids—who's mimicking whom?

K Yui Eto, SM Kwong, PT LaBreck… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… on non-conjugative plasmids and enable mobilization by … from the horizontal mobilization
facilitated by various pWBG749… for conjugative mobilization but the antimicrobial-resistance

An updated view of plasmid conjugation and mobilization in Staphylococcus

JP Ramsay, SM Kwong, RJT Murphy… - Mobile genetic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Origin-of-transfer sequences facilitate mobilization of non-conjugative antimicrobial-resistance
plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:7971-83; PMID:…

Origins of transfer establish networks of functional dependencies for plasmid transfer by conjugation

M Ares-Arroyo, C Coluzzi, EPC Rocha - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
sequence required for conjugation, the origin of transfer (oriT)… We identified antimicrobial
resistance genes in the plasmid … plasmids, which are known to be non-conjugative (55). Finally, …

Evolution of plasmid mobility: origin and fate of conjugative and nonconjugative plasmids

C Coluzzi, MP Garcillán-Barcia… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… to become efficient at plasmid mobilization in trans, possibly … the DNA molecule at the
origin of transfer (oriT) and links … Both ICEs and conjugative plasmids facilitate the conjugative …

Mobilisation of a small Acinetobacter plasmid carrying an oriT transfer origin by conjugative RepAci6 plasmids

GA Blackwell, RM Hall - Plasmid, 2019 - Elsevier
mobilisation. If this is the case, pS32-1 should include a sequence closely-related to the oriT
(origin of transfer) … non-conjugative plasmid in the recipient cell, or both the conjugative and …

[PDF][PDF] NAR Breakthrough Article Origins of transfer establish networks of functional

M Ares-Arroyo, C Coluzzi… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… DNA sequence in the plasmid called the origin of transfer (oriT… We identified antimicrobial
resistance genes in the plasmid … , which are known to be non-conjugative (55). Finally, …

Multiple plasmid origin-of-transfer substrates enable the spread of natural antimicrobial resistance to human pathogens

J Zrimec - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
facilitate finding these regions in large datasets, and develop a DNA structure-based alignment
procedure for typing the transfer substrates that outperforms mere sequence-… mobilization

Evolution of plasmid mobility: origin and fate of non-conjugative plasmids

C Coluzzi, M Pilar Garcillán-Barcia, F de la Cruz… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
… nicks the DNA molecule at the origin of transfer (oriT) and links … Mobilization in trans occurs
when the element uses a … pMOBs, a process that may be facilitated by the presence of high …

Processing of nonconjugative resistance plasmids by conjugation nicking enzyme of staphylococci

RM Pollet, JD Ingle, JP Hymes, TC Eakes… - Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
antimicrobial resistance, and many plasmids carry multiple … identified sequences similar to
the pSK41 origin of transfer on … pSK41 family plasmids likewise facilitate mobilization of other …