Conditions that sustain constant bacterial growth are seldom found in nature. Oligotrophic
environments and competition among microorganisms force bacteria to be able to adapt …

The ampicillin‐resistance transposon Tn3is the archetype (“Tn3” being synonymous with
“Tn1” or “Tn2”;(1)) of a large and widespread family of transposons with representatives in …

Acetyl-coenzyme A (AcCoA) is a metabolic hub in virtually all living cells, serving as both a
key precursor of essential biomass components and a metabolic sink for catabolic pathways …

The rapidly emerging phenomenon of antibiotic resistance threatens to substantially reduce
the efficacy of available antibacterial therapies. Dissemination of resistance, even between …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between bacterial lineages is a fundamental evolutionary
process that accelerates adaptation. Sequence analyses show that conjugative plasmids …

Pseudomonas xanthomarina S11 is an arsenite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an
arsenic-contaminated former gold mine in Salsigne, France. This bacterium showed high …

Understanding the molecular mechanisms that influence transposable element target site
preferences is a fundamental challenge in functional and evolutionary genomics. Large …

Bacteria must be able to cope with harsh environments to survive. In Gram-negative bacteria
like Pseudomonas species, resistance-nodulation-division (RND) transporters contribute to …

The carbazole-degradative plasmid pCAR1 carries the class II transposon Tn 4676, which
contains the car and ant genes, essential for conversion of carbazole into anthranilate, and …

Transposable elements, or 'transposons', group a wide diversity of mobile genetic elements
that can move from one location to another within the genome of their host 1. Specialized …