Many plasmids are incapable of conjugating on their own (non-conjugative plasmids) as they lack the machinery for conjugation; sometimes, these can be mobilized for transfer by the presence of a ...

Yet plasmids have their downsides, and past research has shown that bacteria readily shed them. "Even though they can carry beneficial genes, plasmids can also interfere with many types of ...

Plasmid DNA isolation from bacterial cells is an often-repeated task. ... Three factors including plate type, ... There were a total of 20 different runs in random orders from five whole plots.

Antibiotics save lives -- but using them also helps antibiotic-resistant strains evolve and spread. Each year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect some 2.8 million people in the United States ...

Bacterial cells often possess molecules of closed, circular DNA, otherwise known as ‘plasmids’. They can also be present at much lower frequencies in certain eukaryotic cell types, such as yeast.

While most bacterial DNA is in the form of plasmids, there are some that have linear DNA that ... This study utilized two different types of bacteria, each representing a different type of ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

There are three distinct types of CRISPR/Cas immunity systems. Doudna and her colleagues studied the Type II system which relies exclusively upon one family of endonucleases for the targeting and ...

Bacteria have therefore evolved many types of anti-phage defence, ... plasmids or their bacterial hosts might develop ways to facilitate coexistence by minimizing the plasmid burden on the host ...

The experiment involved introducing these barcoding plasmids into E. coli donor bacteria, which then transferred their genetic material to various microbes in a wastewater community.

In classical bacterial conjugation, one bacterium transfers genetic material to another through direct cell-to-cell contact. 3 This can either be through a natural process or via artificial means.