A plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecule that is distinct from a cell's chromosomal DNA. Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some eukaryotes.

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

However, he added, "How the first guide was created in the cell is unclear to us at ... proteins that trigger their host bacteria's death to avoid plasmid invasion. Argonautes, however, are ...

the team of researchers took a closer look at this plasmid, which consists of only two genes that rather surprisingly only ...

Plasmid vectors can be used to clone ... which is capable of infecting bacterial cells and using them as hosts to produce more viruses. As the first step, a bacteriophage injects its DNA into ...

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However, plasmid copy numbers can fluctuate, causing inconsistent gene expression within bacterial populations ... plasmid copy number within individual cells and the fraction of plasmid-carrying ...

In a recent publication in Cell Reports Medicine, a collaborative research team led by Chen-Yu Zhang and Huan Wang at Nanjing University, Hongkai Bi at Hainan Medical University, Hong Ling at Harbin ...

Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a major threat to human health. Manipulation of bacterial genes at the transcriptional level is a potential strategy to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial ...

Given the growing antibiotic resistance crisis, novel ways to target bacterial infections are becoming increasingly important. One potential strategy is to manipulate bacterial genes at the ...