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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2026

Utilizing natural competence to genetically manipulate

Kevin Y Cao, Daniella Serrador, Jhenielle R Campbell, Rupert Kaul, William Wiley Navarre

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kevin Y CaoDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Daniella SerradorDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jhenielle R CampbellDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Rupert KaulDepartments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1586-4093
William Wiley NavarreDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9293-9220

Funding

CIHR CGS-DCIHR PJT-198144IGNITE grant from the Emerging Pandemics and Infections Consortium (EPIC) IGNITENatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2020-06015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The healthy human vaginal microbiota is typically dominated by one species of IMPORTANCE: This study describes, to our knowledge, the first method for genetically manipulating

Indexed as

LactobacillusBacterial ProteinsFemaleHumansTransformation, BacterialVaginaBacterial Proteinscompetence proteinserythromycin resistancegene editinggenome editinginerolysinlactobacillilactobacillus inersnatural transformationvaginal microbiome

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PMID42573259
PMCPMC13599483

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