ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Diverse conjugative elements silence natural transformation in
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- Chromosomal Curing Drives an Arms Race Between Bacterial Transformation and Prophage.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
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- ProQ prevents mRNA degradation through inhibition of poly(A) polymerase.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- ProQ-associated small RNAs control motility in Vibrio cholerae.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Naturally competent bacteria and their genetic parasites-a battle for control over horizontal gene transfer?FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Cryo-EM structure and evolutionary history of the conjugation surface exclusion protein TraT.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Manipulation of natural transformation by AbaR-type islands promotes fixation of antibiotic resistance inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- FinO/ProQ-family proteins: an evolutionary perspective.Bioscience reports · 2023Review
- Post-vaccine epidemiology of serotype 3 pneumococci identifies transformation inhibition through prophage-driven alteration of a non-coding RNA.Genome medicine · 2022Article
- Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- The molecular diversity of transcriptional factor TfoX is a determinant in natural transformation inFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Bacterial DNA involvement in carcinogenesis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Natural transformation (i.e., the uptake of DNA and its stable integration in the chromosome) is a major mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Although the vast majority of bacterial genomes carry the genes involved in natural transformation, close relatives of naturally transformable species often appear not competent for natural transformation. In addition, unexplained extensive variations in the natural transformation phenotype have been reported in several species. Here, we addressed this phenomenon by conducting a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a panel of isolates of the opportunistic pathogen
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