ArticleJournal of virology2019
Identification of the First Gene Transfer Agent (GTA) Small Terminase in
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- A bacterial CARD-NLR-like immune system controls the release of gene transfer agents.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Large-scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Gene transfer agents: The ambiguous role of selfless viruses in genetic exchange and bacterial evolution.Molecular microbiology · 2025Review
- Control of a gene transfer agent cluster in Caulobacter crescentus by transcriptional activation and anti-termination.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Loss of the Rhodobacter capsulatus Serine Acetyl Transferase Gene,Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Riboflavin synthesis from gaseous nitrogen and carbon dioxide by a hybrid inorganic-biological system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The archetypal gene transfer agent RcGTA is regulated via direct interaction with the enigmatic RNA polymerase omega subunit.Cell reports · 2022Article
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- Gene Transfer Agents in Bacterial Endosymbionts of Microbial Eukaryotes.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Staphylococcus epidermidis Phages Transduce Antimicrobial Resistance Plasmids and Mobilize Chromosomal Islands.mSphere · 2021Article
- Impact factors of the accumulation, migration and spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2021Review
- Evolution of DNA packaging in gene transfer agents.Virus evolution · 2021Article
- Gene Transfer Agents in Symbiotic Microbes.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2020Review
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Abstract
Genetic exchange mediated by viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages) is the primary driver of rapid bacterial evolution. The priority of viruses is usually to propagate themselves. Most bacteriophages use the small terminase protein to identify their own genome and direct its inclusion into phage capsids. Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are descended from bacteriophages, but they instead package fragments of the entire bacterial genome without preference for their own genes. GTAs do not selectively target specific DNA, and no GTA small terminases are known. Here, we identified the small terminase from the model
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