Molecular Mechanisms That Contribute to Horizontal Transfer of Plasmids by the Bacteriophage SPP1

Molecular Mechanisms That Contribute to Horizontal Transfer of Plasmids by the Bacteriophage SPP1

Natural transformation and viral-mediated transduction are the main avenues of horizontal gene transfer in Firmicutes. Bacillus subtilis SPP1 is a generalized transducing bacteriophage. Using this lytic phage as a model, we have analyzed how viral replication and recombination systems contribute to...

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Main Authors: Ana Valero-Rello, María López-Sanz, Alvaro Quevedo-Olmos, Alexei Sorokin, Silvia Ayora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
horizontal gene transfer
plasmid transduction
SPP1
bacteriophages
antibiotic resistance
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01816/full

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