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Bioinformatic and experimental characterization of SEN1998: a conserved gene carried by the Enterobacteriaceae-associated ROD21-like family of genomic islands.
Scientific reports - 14 Feb 2022
Piña-Iturbe Alejandro, Hoppe-Elsholz Guillermo, Fernández Paulina A, Santiviago Carlos A, González Pablo A, Bueno Susan M
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Genomic islands (GIs) are horizontally transferred elements that shape bacterial genomes and contributes to the adaptation to different environments. Some GIs encode an integrase and a recombination directionality factor (RDF), which are the molecular GI-encoded machinery that promotes the island excision from the chromosome, the first step for the spread of GIs by horizontal transfer. Although less studied, this...
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