Bacterial conjugation is the process by which a conjugative element (CE) is transferred
horizontally from a donor to a recipient cell via a connecting pore. One of the first steps in the …

Antibiotic resistance is a serious global problem. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARG), which
are widespread in environmental bacteria, can be transferred to pathogenic bacteria via …

Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes carried by conjugative plasmids poses a
serious health problem. As conjugative relaxases are transported to recipient cells during …

Bacterial conjugation in Gram-negative bacteria is triggered by a signal that connects the
relaxosome to the coupling protein (T4CP) and transferosome, a type IV secretion system …

Bacterial conjugation is a mechanism for horizontal DNA transfer with potential for universal
DNA delivery. The conjugal machinery can be separated into three functional modules: the …

Background Bacterial conjugation is a mechanism for horizontal DNA transfer between
bacteria which requires cell to cell contact, usually mediated by self-transmissible plasmids …

Bacterial conjugation, a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer, is the major means by which
antibiotic resistance spreads among bacteria (1, 2). Conjugative plasmids are transferred …

All plasmids that spread by conjugative transfer encode a relaxase. That includes plasmids
that encode the type IV secretion machinery necessary to mediate cell to cell transfer, as …

Bacterial conjugation is an important source of genetic plasticity. The initiation complex for
conjugative transfer of transmissible plasmids—the relaxosome—is a specific DNA-protein …

Conjugative transfer of toxin and antibiotic resistance plasmids in C lostridium perfringens is
mediated by the tcp conjugation locus. Surprisingly, neither a relaxase gene nor an origin of …