Many expression systems in research and industry use plasmids as vectors for the
production of recombinant proteins or non-proteinous recombinant substances. Plasmids …

In the late 1950s, a number of laboratories took up the study of plasmids once the discovery
was made that extrachromosomal antibiotic resistance (R) factors are the responsible …

Type 1 fimbriae are adhesion organelles expressed by many Gram-negative bacteria. They
facilitate adherence to mucosal surfaces and inflammatory cells in vitro, but their contribution …

Broad‐host‐range plasmid RK2 encodes a post‐segregational killing system, parDE, which
contributes to the stable maintenance of this plasmid in Escherichia coli and many distantly …

▪ Abstract In bacteria, programmed cell death is mediated through “addiction modules”
consisting of two genes. The product of the second gene is a stable toxin, whereas the …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes methods for the handling and analysis of
microbial behavior of organisms in biofilm communities at both microscopic and …

Virulence functions of pathogenic bacteria are often encoded on large extrachromosomal
plasmids. These plasmids are maintained at low copy number to reduce the metabolic …

The first 13.6 kb of the mercury and multidrug resistance transposon Tn 1696, which
includes the class 1 integron In4, has been sequenced. In4 is 8.33 kb long and contains the …

The complete nucleotide sequence of an 8447 bp‐long mercury‐resistance transposon
(Tn5053) has been determined. Tn5053 is composed of two modules:(i) the mercury …

A large number of cancer gene therapy clinical trials are currently being performed that are
attempting to evaluate novel approaches to eliminate tumor cells by the introduction of …