Natural Escherichia coli strains undergo cell-to-cell plasmid transformation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 481, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 59-62

  Matsumoto, Akiko ^a   Sekoguchi, Ayuka ^a   Imai, Junko ^a   Kondo, Kumiko ^a   Shibata, Yuka ^a   Maeda, Sumio ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

E. coli; ECOR; Horizontal gene transfer; Transformation

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PLASMIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 85000996013     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.11.018     Document Type: Article

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