Bacteria have been constantly competing for nutrients and space for billions of years. During
this time, they have evolved many different molecular mechanisms by which to secrete …

Conjugative transfer of bacterial plasmids is the most efficient way of horizontal gene
spread, and it is therefore considered one of the major reasons for the increase in the …

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are versatile secretion systems that are found in both
Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and secrete a wide range of substrates, from …

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 …

SUMMARY Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria; Xanthomonadales;
Xanthomonadaceae, Xanthomonas. Microbiological properties: Gram‐negative, obligately …

The translocation of DNA across biological membranes is an essential process for many
living organisms. In bacteria, type IV secretion systems (T4SS) are used to deliver DNA as …

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 …

Bacteria use type IV secretion systems (T4SS) to translocate DNA (T‐DNA) and protein
substrates across the cell envelope. By transfer DNA immunoprecipitation (TrIP), we recently …

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are large multisubunit translocons, found in both gram-
negative and gram-positive bacteria and in some archaea. These systems transport a …

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) play a central role in the pathogenicity of many important
pathogens, including Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Helicobacter pylori, and Legionella …