Exploring the role of phage plasmids in gene transfers.

Autor: Szczepankowska AK; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland., Łobocka M; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: lobocka@ibb.waw.pl.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Trends in genetics : TIG [Trends Genet] 2024 Jul; Vol. 40 (7), pp. 555-557. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 29.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.04.011
Abstrakt: Bacteriophages and plasmids drive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in bacteria. Phage-plasmids (P-Ps) are hybrids of plasmid and phages. Pfeifer and Rocha recently demonstrated that P-Ps can serve as intermediates in gene exchanges between these two types of elements, identified categories of preferentially transferred genes, and reconstructed gene flows involving phage P1-like P-Ps.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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