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Escherichia coli genes affecting recipient ability in plasmid conjugation: are there any?
BMC genomics - 9 Feb 2009
Pérez-Mendoza Daniel, de la Cruz Fernando
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: How does the recipient cell contribute to bacterial conjugation? To answer this question we systematically analyzed the individual contribution of each Escherichia coli gene in matings using plasmid R388 as a conjugative plasmid. We used an automated conjugation assay and two sets of...
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