Cis-Acting Relaxases Guarantee Independent Mobilization of MOBQ4 Plasmids

Plasmids are key vehicles of horizontal gene transfer and contribute greatly to bacterial genome plasticity. In this work, we studied a group of plasmids from enterobacteria that encode phylogenetically related mobilization functions that populate the previously non-described MOBQ4 relaxase family....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Pilar Garcillán-Barcia, Raquel Cuartas-Lanza, Ana Cuevas, Fernando de la Cruz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02557/full