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Conservation of key elements of natural competence in Lactococcus lactis ssp.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Apr 2006
Wydau Sandra, Dervyn Rozenn, Anba Jamila, Dusko Ehrlich S, Maguin Emmanuelle
Abstract excerpt
Natural competence is active in very diverse species of the bacterial kingdom and probably participates in horizontal gene transfer. Recently, the genome sequence of various species, including Lactococcus lactis, revealed the presence of homologues of competence genes in bacteria, which were not previously identified as naturally transformable. We investigated the conservation among lactococcal strains of key...
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