Bacterial conjugation is an efficient and sophisticated mechanism of DNA transfer among
bacteria. While mobilizable plasmids only encode a minimal MOB machinery that allows …

Conjugation is the process by which bacteria exchange genetic materials in a unidirectional
manner from a donor cell to a recipient cell. The discovery of conjugation signalled the dawn …

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

Relaxase-based plasmid classification has become popular in the past 10 years.
Nevertheless, it is not obvious how to assign a query protein to a relaxase MOB family …

The bacterial type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) comprise a biologically diverse group of
translocation systems functioning to deliver DNA or protein substrates from donor to target …

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 IncQ plasmids have a broader host-range than any other known replicating element in
bacteria. Studies on the replication and conjugative mobilization of these plasmids, which …

Plasmids cannot be understood as mere tools for genetic exchange: they are themselves
subject to the forces of evolution. Their genomic and phylogenetic features have been less …

Relaxases are DNA strand transferases that catalyze the initial and final stages of DNA
processing during conjugative cell-to-cell DNA transfer. Upon binding to the origin of transfer …