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Pull in and Push Out: Mechanisms of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteria

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in bacterial evolution. It is well accepted that DNA is pulled/pushed into recipient cells by conserved membrane-associated DNA transport systems, which allow the entry of only single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). However, recent studies have uncovered...

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Autor principal: Sun, Dongchang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30237794
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02154