Landscape of mobile genetic elements and their antibiotic resistance cargo in prokaryotic genomes

S Khedkar, G Smyshlyaev, I Letunic… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Prokaryotic Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) such as transposons, integrons,
phages and plasmids, play important roles in prokaryotic evolution and in the dispersal of …

Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution

LS Frost, R Leplae, AO Summers… - Nature Reviews …, 2005 - nature.com
Horizontal genomics is a new field in prokaryotic biology that is focused on the analysis of
DNA sequences in prokaryotic chromosomes that seem to have originated from other …

Strain-level characterization of broad host range mobile genetic elements transferring antibiotic resistance from the human microbiome

SC Forster, J Liu, N Kumar, EL Gulliver… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) carrying antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) disseminate
ARGs when they mobilise into new bacterial hosts. The nature of such horizontal gene …

[HTML][HTML] How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?

T Horne, VT Orr, JPJ Hall - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Collaboration and conflict between MGEs can promote and inhibit HGT•Many
genome defences are MGE-encoded, serving MGE interests and changing frequently•The …

mobileOG-db: a manually curated database of protein families mediating the life cycle of bacterial mobile genetic elements

CL Brown, J Mullet, F Hindi, JE Stoll… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial mobile genetic elements (MGEs) encode functional modules that perform both core
and accessory functions for the element, the latter of which are often only transiently …

A bioinformatic analysis of integrative mobile genetic elements highlights their role in bacterial adaptation

MG Durrant, MM Li, BA Siranosian, SB Montgomery… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) contribute to bacterial adaptation and evolution; however,
high-throughput, unbiased MGE detection remains challenging. We describe MGEfinder, a …

Genetic dominance governs the evolution and spread of mobile genetic elements in bacteria

J Rodríguez-Beltrán, V Sørum… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs), such as plasmids, promote bacterial evolution through
horizontal gene transfer (HGT). However, the rules governing the repertoire of traits encoded …

Defense systems are pervasive across chromosomally integrated mobile genetic elements and are inversely correlated to virulence and antimicrobial resistance

J Botelho - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are key promoters of microbial evolution. These elements
can be located extrachromosomally or integrated into the chromosome. Well-known …

Comprehensive analysis of chromosomal mobile genetic elements in the gut microbiome reveals phylum-level niche-adaptive gene pools

X Jiang, AB Hall, RJ Xavier, EJ Alm - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) drive extensive horizontal transfer in the gut microbiome.
This transfer could benefit human health by conferring new metabolic capabilities to …

Horizontal gene transfer and mobile genetic elements in marine systems

PA Sobecky, TH Hazen - Horizontal gene transfer: genomes in flux, 2009 - Springer
The pool of mobile genetic elements (MGE) in microbial communities consists of viruses,
plasmids, and associated elements (insertion sequences, transposons, and integrons) that …