Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria

By Christopher M Thomas, K. Nielsen. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome (2011, background): “Many previous efforts to explore these forces have highlighted the relationship between phylogeny and HG”
Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution (2008, background): “Horizontally acquired DNA that confers a selective advantage to the host obviously has the potential to spread further among suitable recipients within a bacterial population under the appropriate selective conditions (Thomas & Nielsen, 2005).”
Cycling of extracellular DNA in the soil environment (2007, background): “The factors that regulate the competence of bacterial cells are numerous making it difficult to predict whether a given strain or isolate is, or will become competent (Thomas and Nielsen, 2005).”
Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance (2016, background): “For details on the mechanisms of HGT, readers are directed to a recent state-of-the-art review (10).”
CRISPR interference: RNA-directed adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea (2010, background): “HGT occurs by uptake of environmental DNA ( transformation ) or by the incorporation of heterologous DNA carried on mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids ( conjugation ) and bacteriophages ( transduction”
PlasFlow: predicting plasmid sequences in metagenomic data using genome signatures (2018, background): “Moreover, they can contribute to horizontal gene transfer between different species from diverse taxonomic groups, which make them factors with significant ecological impact (7).”
Gene flow, mobile genetic elements and the recruitment of antibiotic resistance genes into Gram-negative pathogens. (2011, background): “In environments uncorrupted by humans, these phenomena are probably more limited, in the case of promiscuity because barriers to trans-species DNA movement are known (Thomas & Nielsen, 2005).”
Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments (2010, background): “The presence of antibiotic resistance elements in pathogenic bacteria is made all the more problematic because of the prevalence of horizontal gene transfer, the process by which bacteria acquire genes from the environmen”
Biological individuality: the case of biofilms (2012, background): “Such bridges allow the transfer of mobile genetic elements, usually plasmids (Thomas and Nielsen 2005).”
Environmental and Gut Bacteroidetes: The Food Connection (2011, background): “In addition to this intra-strain plasticity, Bacteroidetes genomes evolve through inter-species exchange of genetic material (Thomas and Nielsen, 2005).”
Extracellular DNA in soil and sediment: fate and ecological relevance (2009, background): “According to Gebhard and Smalla (1999) and Thomas and Nielsen (2005), bacterial transformation by eDNA can occur in soil at very low frequencies.”
Application of Probiotics in Shrimp Aquaculture: Importance, Mechanisms of Action, and Methods of Administration (2016, background): “The indiscriminate use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics for improving the quality of fish health and rearing water quality has led to the development of drug-resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms (Amabile-Cuevas et al., 1995; Thomas and Nielsen, 2005; Akinbowale et al., 2006).”