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Characterization of an active partition system for the Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-responding plasmid pAD1.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2007
Francia Maria Victoria, Weaver Keith E, Goicoechea Patricia, Tille Patricia, Clewell Don B
Abstract excerpt
Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 is a 60-kb conjugative, low-copy-number plasmid that encodes a mating response to the peptide sex pheromone cAD1 and a cytolytic exotoxin that contributes to virulence. Although aspects of conjugation have been studied extensively, relatively little is known about the control of pAD1 maintenance. Previous work on pAD1 identified a 5-kb region of DNA sufficient to support...
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