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High diversity and variability of pipolins among a wide range of pathogenic Escherichia coli strains.
Scientific reports - 27 Jul 2020
Flament-Simon Saskia-Camille, de Toro María, Chuprikova Liubov, Blanco Miguel, Moreno-González Juan, Salas Margarita, Blanco Jorge, Redrejo-Rodríguez Modesto
Abstract excerpt
Self-synthesizing transposons are integrative mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that encode their own B-family DNA polymerase (PolB). Discovered a few years ago, they are proposed as key players in the evolution of several groups of DNA viruses and virus-host interaction machinery. Pipolins are the most recent addition to the group, are integrated in the genomes of bacteria from diverse phyla and also present as...
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