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Comparative ICE genomics: insights into the evolution of the SXT/R391 family of ICEs.
PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Wozniak Rachel A F, Fouts Derrick E, Spagnoletti Matteo, Colombo Mauro M, Ceccarelli Daniela, Garriss Geneviève, Déry Christine, Burrus Vincent, Waldor Matthew K
Abstract excerpt
Integrating and conjugative elements (ICEs) are one of the three principal types of self-transmissible mobile genetic elements in bacteria. ICEs, like plasmids, transfer via conjugation; but unlike plasmids and similar to many phages, these elements integrate into and replicate along with the host chromosome. Members of the SXT/R391 family of ICEs have been isolated from several species of gram-negative bacteria,...
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