… and discuss the four hypotheses on how and why do bacteria take up DNA. I argue that DNA
uptake by bacteria is an accidental by-product of bacterial adhesion and twitching motility. …

… Transformation must proceed in a number of steps, dictated in part by the anatomy of the
bacterial cell (Figures 1 and 2). We use the term uptake to mean entry of transforming DNA (…

… could also be in part an unselected consequence of the adhesion and motility activities of
T4P (58), though the coordinated regulation of the T4P genes responsible for …

… Interestingly, a secondary role for this Tfp would also support a recent hypothesis: Bakkali
suggested that DNA uptake might be a side effect of Tfp-mediated bacterial adhesion and …

… labels in bacterial adhesion assays offers the best reproducibility and sensitivity when poorly
adherent bacteria (<1%) are studied. The use of fluorescent-tagged bacteria enables also …

… produced, how it aids bacterial adhesion, secures the structural … for proteins of the DNA
binding–uptake system, which is … Inactivation of the DNA binding-uptake system reduced …

… siderophore uptake receptor, the ferric yersiniabactin uptake … , is to fool the bacterial regulatory
system for iron uptake, ie, Fur. … , ribosomal function, or DNA replication that is present in …

… We demonstrate here that in cells expressing E-cadherin, the ectodomain of this
transmembrane protein mediates bacterial adhesion to mammalian cells and that the cytoplasmic …

… assisting in adhesion, as well as protein loops, DNA polysaccharides present in EPS, and
patches of lipoteichoic acid that act as bonds to assist in bacterial adhesion to a surface [2,36]. …

… Besides the natural processes of DNA uptake, the experimental manipulation of these processes
and … An adhesion of the membranes mediated by the phage tail seems possible only in …