Conjugative Plasmid Transfer in Gram-Positive Bacteria

By E. Grohmann, G. Muth, M. Espinosa. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Endocrinology, Molecular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Multidrug Resistance in Bacteria (2009, background): “Gram-positive bacteria also carry out cell-to-cell transfer of plasmids (43).”
• The versatile bacterial type IV secretion systems (2003, background): “These systems mediate DNA transfer both within and between phylogenetically diverse species, and some systems even deliver DNA to fungi, plants and human cell”
• The TetR Family of Transcriptional Repressors (2005, result): “We have found that proteins of the TetR family are encoded both in chromosomes and in plasmids, and the mobility of the latter elements could be a source of the spread of genes in this family via horizontal transfer (147, 383), as is also the case with catabolic genes (77, 160, 236, 410, 426), antim”
• The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape (2006, background): “In Streptomyces, plasmid DNA is transferred from one organism to another through Tra protein pores located only at the tips of growing poles (108).”
• Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria (2005, background): “The conjugative transfer systems studied in Gram-positive bacteria are a more diverse set of processes than those of Gram-negative bacteri”
• Biological Diversity of Prokaryotic Type IV Secretion Systems (2009, methodology): “than conjugative pili mediate attachment (116).”
• Biogenesis, architecture, and function of bacterial type IV secretion systems. (2005, background): “Recent studies have decidedly shifted to include type IVA effector translocator systems, several type IVB systems, and conjugation machines of Gram-positive bacteria (59, 133).”