Bacterial capabilities to degrade various recalcitrant compounds are often encoded on
mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such as transposons, plasmids, and integrative and …

The past five decades of molecular genetics have produced many discoveries about
genome structure and function that can only be understood from an informatic perspective …

Aim: This study aims to characterize a multidrug-resistant (MDR) plasmid p12969-2
coexistent with the previously reported one p12969-DIM in clinical Pseudomonas putida …

Bacteria have evolved to withstand even the harshest and seemingly unwelcoming
environmental conditions on Earth. For inhabiting different environments and ecological …

As an initial step to understand the mobile nature of class II mercury resistance transposon
Tn MERI1, the effect of the recA gene on translocation of mini-Tn MERI1 was evaluated. A …

A fluorokinolonok kiváló aktivitással rendelkeznek a Gram-negatív baktériumok, különösen
az Enterobacteriaceae család ellen, és az 1980-as években történt bevezetésük óta ezen …

Background Horizontal transfer plays an important role in the evolution of bacterial
genomes, yet it obeys several constraints, including the ecological opportunity to meet other …

Bacteria living in complex and changing environments frequently undergo reversible
processes of phenotypic variation called phase variation. These processes allow …

Directed mutation is a controversial process that allows mutations to occur at higher
frequencies when they are beneficial. Here we review evidence for transposon-mediated …

The genus Pseudomonas represents the most diverse and ecologically widely distributed
group of bacteria 214. Members of this genus are able to colonize many different …