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Diverse conjugative elements silence natural transformation in Legionella species

Natural transformation (i.e., the uptake of DNA and its stable integration in the chromosome) is a major mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Although the vast majority of bacterial genomes carry the genes involved in natural transformation, close relatives of naturally transformable s...

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Autores principales: Durieux, Isabelle, Ginevra, Christophe, Attaiech, Laetitia, Picq, Kévin, Juan, Pierre-Alexandre, Jarraud, Sophie, Charpentier, Xavier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31455740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909374116