Enterococcal plasmid transfer: sex pheromones, transfer origins, relaxases, and the Staphylococcus aureus issue.

doi:10.1016/s0147-619x(02)00113-0

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Enterococcal plasmid transfer: sex pheromones, transfer origins, relaxases, and the Staphylococcus aureus issue.

Plasmid - 1 Nov 2002

Clewell Don B, Francia M Victoria, Flannagan Susan E, An Florence Y

Abstract excerpt

Certain conjugative plasmids in Enterococcus faecalis encode a mating response to peptide sex pheromones encoded on the chromosome of potential recipient (plasmid-free) strains. The pheromone precursors correspond to the precursors of surface lipoproteins with the mature peptides coming from the last 7-8 residues of the related signal sequences. Processing that gives rise to the pAD1-related peptide involves a...

Topics

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
Enterococcus faecalis
Mutation
Open Reading Frames
Peptides
Pheromones
Plasmids
Recombination, Genetic
Replication Origin
Staphylococcus aureus
Vancomycin

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PMID: 12460535
DOI: 10.1016/s0147-619x(02)00113-0

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