The secret life of conjugative relaxases

DL Guzmán-Herrador, M Llosa - Plasmid, 2019 - Elsevier
Conjugative relaxases are well-characterized proteins responsible for the site-and strand-
specific endonucleolytic cleavage and strand transfer reactions taking place at the start and …

Mobile genetic elements in streptococci

M Lu, T Gong, A Zhang, B Tang, J Chen… - Current Issues in …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Streptococci are a group of Gram-positive bacteria belonging to the family
Streptococcaceae, which are responsible of multiple diseases. Some of these species can …

Structural basis of a histidine-DNA nicking/joining mechanism for gene transfer and promiscuous spread of antibiotic resistance

R Pluta, DR Boer, F Lorenzo-Díaz, S Russi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Relaxases are metal-dependent nucleases that break and join DNA for the initiation and
completion of conjugative bacterial gene transfer. Conjugation is the main process through …

Mobilizable rolling‐circle replicating plasmids from gram‐positive bacteria: a low‐cost conjugative transfer

C Fernández-López, A Bravo… - … : Biology and Impact …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria are everywhere simply because they can colonize and adapt to different ecological
niches in a very short‐term period. One important molecular mechanism underlying the …

Bringing them together: plasmid pMV158 rolling circle replication and conjugation under an evolutionary perspective

F Lorenzo-Díaz, C Fernández-López… - Plasmid, 2014 - Elsevier
Rolling circle-replicating plasmids constitute a vast family that is particularly abundant in, but
not exclusive of, Gram-positive bacteria. These plasmids are constructed as cassettes that …

Multiple plasmid origin‐of‐transfer regions might aid the spread of antimicrobial resistance to human pathogens

J Zrimec - MicrobiologyOpen, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance poses a great danger to humanity, in part due to the widespread
horizontal gene transfer of plasmids via conjugation. Modeling of plasmid transfer is …

Multiple plasmid origin-of-transfer substrates enable the spread of natural antimicrobial resistance to human pathogens

J Zrimec - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Antimicrobial resistance poses a great danger to humanity, in part due to the widespread
horizontal transfer of plasmids via conjugation. Modeling of plasmid transfer is essential to …

Mobilizable Rolling-Circle Replicating Plasmids from

DA Garsin, F Lorenzo-Díaz… - Plasmids: Biology and …, 2020 - books.google.com
Bacteria are everywhere simply because they can colo-nize and adapt to different ecological
niches in a very short-term period. One important molecular mechanism underlying the …

[PDF][PDF] SYNTHESIS OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES CONTAINING A 3'-S-PHOSPHOROTHIOLATE LINKAGE

I Reimer, D Oetzmann, C Meier - chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Bacterial conjugation is a horizontal gene transfer and one way for translocation of antibiotic
resistance and virulence genes. Conjugation of plasmids in bacteria includes two steps. A …

Relaxasas conjugativas de la familia MOBv

C Fernández López - 2016 - docta.ucm.es
La conjugación es uno de los principales mecanismos de transferencia genética horizontal
entre bacterias. Este proceso consiste en el intercambio de material genético entre dos …