The large-scale application of xenobiotics adversely affects the environment. The genes that
are present in the chromosome of the bacteria are considered nonmobile, whereas the …

Bacterial conjugation is an efficient and sophisticated mechanism of DNA transfer among
bacteria. While mobilizable plasmids only encode a minimal MOB machinery that allows …

Pseudomonads sense changes in the concentration of chemicals in their environment and
exhibit a behavioral response mediated by flagella or pili coupled with a chemosensory …

Integrating and conjugative elements (ICEs) are one of the three principal types of self-
transmissible mobile genetic elements in bacteria. ICEs, like plasmids, transfer via …

SXT is an integrating conjugative element (ICE) that was initially isolated from a 1992 Vibrio
cholerae O139 clinical isolate from India. This∼ 100-kb ICE encodes resistance to multiple …

Bacteriophages (prokaryotic viruses) are favourite model systems to study DNA replication
in prokaryotes, and provide examples for every theoretically possible replication …

Horizontal transfer of resistance determinants amongst bacteria can be achieved by
conjugative plasmid DNA elements. We have determined the complete 274,762 bp …

Bacteria adapt rapidly to environmental stimuli, such as exposure to xenobiotics. Mobile
genetic elements (MGEs) play a major role in such bacterial adaptation, via the dispersal of …

The complete 83,042 bp sequence of the circular naphthalene degradation plasmid pDTG1
from Pseudomonas putida strain NCIB 9816-4 was determined in order to examine the …

The phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae causes serious diseases in a wide
range of important crop plants, with recent severe outbreaks on the New Zealand kiwifruit …