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Diversity and evolution of repABC type plasmids in Rhodobacterales.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2009
Petersen Jörn, Brinkmann Henner, Pradella Silke
Abstract excerpt
The repABC operon is the prevalent replication unit of alphaproteobacterial plasmids. Their semi-autonomy is ensured by the essential replicase gene repC as well as the repAB partitioning cassette. While conserved repAB modules are widespread among bacterial plasmids and homologues are even responsible for chromosome partitioning, repC genes are exclusively present in Alphaproteobacteria. RepABC operons contain...
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