The Enterococcus: a model of adaptability to its environment

M García-Solache, LB Rice - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019‏ - journals.asm.org
The genus Enterococcus comprises a ubiquitous group of Gram-positive bacteria that are of
great relevance to human health for their role as major causative agents of health care …

The impact of insertion sequences on bacterial genome plasticity and adaptability

J Vandecraen, M Chandler, A Aertsen… - Critical reviews in …, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Transposable elements (TE), small mobile genetic elements unable to exist independently
of the host genome, were initially believed to be exclusively deleterious genomic parasites …

Phage-plasmids promote recombination and emergence of phages and plasmids

E Pfeifer, EPC Rocha - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Phages and plasmids are regarded as distinct types of mobile genetic elements that drive
bacterial evolution by horizontal gene transfer. However, the distinction between both types …

[HTML][HTML] Short prokaryotic Argonaute systems trigger cell death upon detection of invading DNA

B Koopal, A Potocnik, SK Mutte, C Aparicio-Maldonado… - Cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
Argonaute proteins use single-stranded RNA or DNA guides to target complementary
nucleic acids. This allows eukaryotic Argonaute proteins to mediate RNA interference and …

PlasFlow: predicting plasmid sequences in metagenomic data using genome signatures

PS Krawczyk, L Lipinski… - Nucleic acids research, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Plasmids are mobile genetics elements that play an important role in the environmental
adaptation of microorganisms. Although plasmids are usually analyzed in cultured …

Nonhybrid, finished microbial genome assemblies from long-read SMRT sequencing data

CS Chin, DH Alexander, P Marks, AA Klammer… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
We present a hierarchical genome-assembly process (HGAP) for high-quality de novo
microbial genome assemblies using only a single, long-insert shotgun DNA library in …

Evolutionary pathways and trajectories in antibiotic resistance

F Baquero, JL Martinez, V F. Lanza… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Acquired antibiotic resistance genes: an overview

AHAM Van Hoek, D Mevius, B Guerra… - Frontiers in …, 2011‏ - frontiersin.org
In this review an overview is given on antibiotic resistance (AR) mechanisms with special
attentions to the AR genes described so far preceded by a short introduction on the …

Bacterial genome instability

E Darmon, DRF Leach - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2014‏ - journals.asm.org
Bacterial genomes are remarkably stable from one generation to the next but are plastic on
an evolutionary time scale, substantially shaped by horizontal gene transfer, genome …

Insertion Sequence IS26 Reorganizes Plasmids in Clinically Isolated Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria by Replicative Transposition

S He, AB Hickman, AM Varani, P Siguier, M Chandler… - MBio, 2015‏ - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), which are resistant to
most or all known antibiotics, constitute a global threat to public health. Transposable …