Often, the genes carried in plasmids provide bacteria with genetic advantages, such as antibiotic resistance. Plasmids have a wide range of lengths, from roughly one thousand DNA base pairs to ...

Critically, the team discovered how K. pneumoniae spread resistance genes: via plasmids. Plasmids are mobile genetic structures that can carry multiple resistance genes and spread them to other ...

In bacteria, mutations in plasmids can accumulate surprisingly fast. What does this mean for us humans, who have to fight with these new antibiotic resistant strains? Now, say that a few days ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can spread from microbe to microbe through circular genetic material ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids—small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids - small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable with ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

Each educt plasmid (Donors or Acceptor) contains a unique resistance marker to allow selection of productive fusion plasmids by multiple resistance marker challenge. This approach is made possible by ...