Bacterial conjugation is a promiscuous DNA transport mechanism. Conjugative plasmids
transfer themselves between most bacteria, thus being one of the main causal agents of the …

This review is dedicated to Jeff Schell, one of the founders of modernAgrobiology', the
genetic and molecular dissection of crown gall disease. Together with notable scientists at …

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global threat to human health. Natural
transformation is an important pathway for horizontal gene transfer, which facilitates the …

The IncPα promiscuous plasmid (R18, R68, RK2, RP1 and RP4) comprises 60,099 bp of
nucleotide sequence, encoding at least 74 genes. About 40 kb of the genome, designated …

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are important virulence factors used by Gram-negative
bacterial pathogens to inject effectors into host cells or to spread plasmids harboring …

The process of DNA donation for natural transformation of bacteria is poorly understood and
has been assumed to involve bacterial cell death. Recently in Neisseria gonorrhoeae we …

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 …

Bacterial conjugation has long served as a model system for developing a mechanistic
understanding of how nucleic acids translocate across biological membranes. Early studies …

The mating pair formation (Mpf) system functions as a secretion machinery for intercellular
DNA transfer during bacterial conjugation. The components of the Mpf system, comprising a …

The ability of conjugative plasmids from six different incompatibility groups to mobilize a set
of mobilizable plasmids was examined. The mobilization frequencies of plasmids RSF1010 …