The behavior and significance of degradative plasmids belonging to Inc groups in Pseudomonas within natural environments and microcosms

M Shintani, Y Takahashi, H Yamane… - Microbes and …, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Over the past few decades, degradative plasmids have been isolated from bacteria capable
of degrading a variety of both natural and man-made compounds. Degradative plasmids …

Structural and molecular genetic analyses of the bacterial carbazole degradation system

H Nojiri - Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Carbazole degradation by several bacterial strains, including Pseudomonas resinovorans
CA10, has been investigated over the last two decades. As the initial reaction in degradation …

Fate of Antibiotic Resistant Pseudomonas putida and Broad Host Range Plasmid in Natural Soil Microcosms

XT Fan, H Li, QL Chen, YS Zhang, J Ye… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plasmid conjugation is one of the dominant mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer, playing
a noticeable role in the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Broad host range …

Genomic and Functional Analysis of the IncP-9 Naphthalene-Catabolic Plasmid NAH7 and Its Transposon Tn4655 Suggests Catabolic Gene Spread by a Tyrosine …

M Sota, H Yano, A Ono, R Miyazaki, H Ishii… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The naphthalene-catabolic (nah) genes on the incompatibility group P-9 (IncP-9) self-
transmissible plasmid NAH7 from Pseudomonas putida G7 are some of the most extensively …

Single-cell analyses revealed transfer ranges of IncP-1, IncP-7, and IncP-9 plasmids in a soil bacterial community

M Shintani, K Matsui, J Inoue… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The conjugative transfer ranges of three different plasmids of the incompatibility groups IncP-
1 (pBP136), IncP-7 (pCAR1), and IncP-9 (NAH7) were investigated in soil bacterial …

Nucleoid-associated proteins encoded on plasmids: occurrence and mode of function

M Shintani, C Suzuki-Minakuchi, H Nojiri - Plasmid, 2015 - Elsevier
Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) play a role in changing the shape of microbial DNA,
making it more compact and affecting the regulation of transcriptional networks in host cells …

Molecular genetic analysis of an XDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST664 clone carrying multiple conjugal plasmids

Z Li, Z Cai, Z Cai, Y Zhang, T Fu, Y Jin… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objectives A group of ST664 XDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains have been isolated
from a burn clinic. Here we decipher their resistomes and likely mechanisms of resistance …

Developing a Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Comamonas testosteroni, an Emerging Cellular Chassis for Bioremediation

Q Tang, T Lu, SJ Liu - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Synthetic biology is rapidly evolving into a new phase that emphasizes real-world
applications such as environmental remediation. Recently, Comamonas testosteroni has …

Response of the Pseudomonas host chromosomal transcriptome to carriage of the IncP‐7 plasmid pCAR1

M Shintani, Y Takahashi, H Tokumaru… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmid carriage requires appropriate expression of the genes on the plasmid or host
chromosome through cooperative transcriptional regulation. To clarify the impact of plasmid …

Modulation of primary cell function of host Pseudomonas bacteria by the conjugative plasmid pCAR1

Y Takahashi, M Shintani, N Takase… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of plasmid carriage on the host cell were comprehensively analysed using the
conjugative plasmid pCAR 1 in three different P seudomonas hosts, P. putida KT 2440, P …