Integrons are versatile gene acquisition systems commonly found in bacterial genomes.
They are ancient elements that are a hot spot for genomic complexity, generating phenotypic …

With the induction of various emerging environmental contaminants such as antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs), environment is considered as a key indicator for the spread of …

The presence of an abnormal amount of single-stranded DNA in the bacterial cell constitutes
a genotoxic alarm signal that induces the SOS response, a broad regulatory network found …

The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is a phenomenon of concern to the clinician
and the pharmaceutical industry, as it is the major cause of failure in the treatment of …

Integrons are genetic elements able to acquire and rearrange open reading frames (ORFs)
embedded in gene cassette units and convert them to functional genes by ensuring their …

Gene cassettes are small mobile elements, consisting of little more than a single gene and
recombination site, which are captured by larger elements called integrons. Several …

▪ Abstract Virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria (adhesins, toxins, invasins, protein
secretion systems, iron uptake systems, and others) may be encoded by particular regions of …

The integron is a new type of mobile element which has evolved by a site-specific
recombinational mechanism. Integrons consist of two conserved segments of DNA …

An integron is a genetic unit that includes the determinants of the components of a site‐
specific recombination system capable of capturing and mobilizing genes that are contained …

The transposon Tn21 and a group of closely related transposons (the Tn21 family) are
involved in the global dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants in gram-negative …