ArticleJournal of bacteriology1999
Comparison of proteins involved in pilus synthesis and mating pair stabilization from the related plasmids F and R100-1: insights into the mechanism of conjugation.
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- Solution characterization of the dynamic conjugative entry exclusion protein TraG.Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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- Specificity and Selective Advantage of an Exclusion System in the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEJournal of bacteriology · 2021Article
- Cryoelectron-Microscopic Structure of the pKpQIL Conjugative Pili from Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.Structure (London, England : 1993) · 2020Article
- Plasmid Transfer by Conjugation in Gram-Negative Bacteria: From the Cellular to the Community Level.Genes · 2020Review
- Protein Dynamics in F-like Bacterial Conjugation.Biomedicines · 2020Review
- The Role of theFrontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Identification, characterization and benefits of an exclusion system in an integrative and conjugative element of Bacillus subtilis.Molecular microbiology · 2019Article
- Entry Exclusion of Conjugative Plasmids of the IncA, IncC, and Related Untyped Incompatibility Groups.Journal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- Surface Exclusion Revisited: Function Related to Differential Expression of the Surface Exclusion System ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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- Spread and Persistence of Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Genes: A Ride on the F Plasmid Conjugation Module.EcoSal Plus · 2018Review
- Natural and Artificial Strategies To Control the Conjugative Transmission of Plasmids.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
- The Mosaic Type IV Secretion Systems.EcoSal Plus · 2016Review
- Transcriptional Analysis of the Conjugal Transfer Genes of Rickettsia bellii RML 369-C.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
F and R100-1 are closely related, derepressed, conjugative plasmids from the IncFI and IncFII incompatibility groups, respectively. Heteroduplex mapping and genetic analyses have revealed that the transfer regions are extremely similar between the two plasmids. Plasmid specificity can occur at the level of relaxosome formation, regulation, and surface exclusion between the two transfer systems. There are also differences in pilus serology, pilus-specific phage sensitivity, and requirements for OmpA and lipopolysaccharide components in the recipient cell. These phenotypic differences were exploited in this study to yield new information about the mechanism of pilus synthesis, mating pair stabilization, and surface and/or entry exclusion, which are collectively involved in mating pair formation (Mpf). The sequence of the remainder of the transfer region of R100-1 (trbA to traS) has been completed, and the complete sequence is compared to that of F. The differences between the two transfer regions include insertions and deletions, gene duplications, and mosaicism within genes, although the genes essential for Mpf are conserved in both plasmids. F+ cells carrying defined mutations in each of the Mpf genes were complemented with the homologous genes from R100-1. Our results indicate that the specificity in recipient cell recognition and entry exclusion are mediated by TraN and TraG, respectively, and not by the pilus.
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