| Autor: |
Michael P Ryan, Patricia eArmshaw, Tony J Pembroke |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2016 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 7 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1664-302X |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fmicb.2016.00829 |
| Popis: |
Integrative Conjugative Elements (ICEs) are a class of bacterial mobile elements that have the ability to mediate their own integration, excision and transfer from one host genome to another by a mechanism of site-specific recombination, self-circularisation and conjugative transfer. Members of the SXT/R391 ICE family of enterobacterial mobile genetic elements display an unusual UV-inducible sensitisation function which results in stress induced killing of bacterial cells harbouring the ICE. This sensitisation has been shown to be associated with a stress induced overexpression of a mobile element encoded conjugative transfer gene, orf43, a traV homolog. This results in cell lysis and release of a circular form of the ICE. Induction of this novel system may allow transfer of an ICE, enhancing its survival potential under conditions not conducive to conjugative transfer. |
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