Broad-host-range plasmids play a critical role in the spread of antibiotic resistance and other
traits. In spite of increasing information about the genomic diversity of closely related …

Conjugative plasmids play a very important role in bacterial adaptation through the
dissemination of useful traits. Incompatibility group P-1 (IncP-1) plasmids exhibit an extreme …

Broad-host-range (BHR) IncP-1 plasmids have the ability to transfer between and replicate
in nearly all species of the Alpha-, Beta-and Gammaproteobacteria, but surprisingly few data …

The broad host range IncP plasmids are of particular interest because of their ability to
promote gene spread between diverse bacterial species. To facilitate study of these …

Plasmids of the IncP-1 incompatibility group are self-transmissible between and stably
maintained in a very broad range of Gram-negative bacteria. A characteristic feature of IncP …

Plasmids classified to the IncP-1 incompatibility group belong to the most stably maintained
mobile elements among low copy number plasmids known to date. The remarkable …

Sphingomonas sp. A1 (strain A1) is capable of directly incorporating macromolecules (eg,
alginate) through the specialized import system—“super-channel.” Here, we report the …

Although IncP-1 plasmids are important for horizontal gene transfer among bacteria, in
particular antibiotic resistance spread, so far only three plasmids from the subgroup IncP-1α …

The nucleotide sequences of the broad-host-range antibiotic resistance plasmids pB2 (61
kb) and pB3 (56 kb), which were isolated from a wastewater treatment plant, were …

Plasmids of the incompatibility group IncP-1 are important agents of horizontal gene transfer
and contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance and xenobiotic degradation within …