In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function ... microbial community using conjugative plasmids, which are naturally occurring ...

It also changes in size during childbirth. For most people, variations don't affect function but procedures like dilation may be needed in people who have had vaginoplasty surgery to create or repair ...

School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R.

High transfer potentials of a large set of resistance factors to E. coli were observed at both sites. Whole-genome sequencing revealed that putative plasmids belonging to the incompatibility group N ...

Collectively, this study highlights that despite less-than-optimal conditions, fecal organisms may transfer plasmids in the environment, but the transfer of pKJK5 between microorganisms is limited ...