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pING family of conjugative plasmids from the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus: insights into recombination and conjugation in Crenarchaeota.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2000
Stedman K M, She Q, Phan H, Holz I, Singh H, Prangishvili D, Garrett R, Zillig W
Abstract excerpt
A novel family of conjugative plasmids from Sulfolobus comprising the active variants pING1, -4, and -6 and the functionally defective variants pING2 and -3, which require the help of an active variant for spreading, has been extensively characterized both functionally and molecularly. In view of the sparse similarity between bacterial and archaeal conjugation and the lack of a practical genetic system for...
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