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9 p, 1.5 MB Structural and biochemical characterization of the relaxosome auxiliary proteins encoded on the Bacillus subtilis plasmid pLS20 / Crespo, Isidro (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Bernardo, Nerea (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Cuppari, Anna (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Calisto, Bárbara Luísa Machado (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Val-Calvo, Jorge (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Miguel-Arribas, Andrés (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Meijer, Wilfried J. J. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Carpena, Xavi (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Gil-Ortiz, Fernando (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Malfois, Marc (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Boer, D. Roeland (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró)
Bacterial conjugation is an important route for horizontal gene transfer. The initial step in this process involves a macromolecular protein-DNA complex called the relaxosome, which in plasmids consists of the origin of transfer (oriT) and several proteins that prepare the transfer. [...]
2022 - 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.12.041
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Vol. 20 (January 2022) , p. 757-765  
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15 p, 7.0 MB Inactivation of the dimeric Rap anti-repressor of the conjugation operon is mediated by peptide-induced tetramerization / Crespo, Isidro (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Bernardo, Nerea (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Miguel-Arribas, Andrés (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Singh, Praveen K. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Luque-Ortega, Juan Román (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Alfonso, Carlos (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Malfois, Marc (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Meijer, Wilfried J. J. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Boer, Roeland (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró)
Quorum sensing allows bacterial cells to communicate through the release of soluble signaling molecules into the surrounding medium. It plays a pivotal role in controlling bacterial conjugation in Gram-positive cells, a process that has tremendous impact on health. [...]
2020 - 10.1093/nar/gkaa540
Nucleic acids research, Vol. 48, issue 14 (Aug. 2020) , p. 8113-8127  
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17 p, 5.8 MB Novel regulatory mechanism of establishment genes of conjugative plasmids / Val-Calvo, Jorge (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Luque-Ortega, Juan Román (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Crespo, Isidro (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Miguel Arribas, Andrés (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Abia, David (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Sánchez-Hevia, Dione L. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Serrano, Ester (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Gago-Córdoba, César (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Ares, Saúl (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) ; Alfonso, Carlos (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Rojo, Fernando (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC)) ; Wu, Ling J. (Newcastle University) ; Boer, Roeland (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Meijer, Wilfried J. J. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa)
The principal route for dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes is conjugation by which a conjugative DNA element is transferred from a donor to a recipient cell. Conjugative elements contain genes that are important for their establishment in the new host, for instance by counteracting the host defense mechanisms acting against incoming foreign DNA. [...]
2018 - 10.1093/nar/gky996
Nucleic acids research, Vol. 46, Issue 22 (December 2018) , p. 11910-11926  
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23 p, 2.2 MB Discovery of a new family of relaxases in Firmicutes bacteria / Gayetri Ramachandran, Andrés (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Miguel Arribas, Andrés (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Abia, David (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Singh, Praveen K. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Crespo, Isidro (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Gago-Córdoba, César (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Hao, Jian An (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) ; Luque-Ortega, Juan Román (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Alfonso, Carlos (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid)) ; Wu, Ling J. (Newcastle University. Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences. Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology) ; Boer, Roeland (ALBA Laboratori de Llum de Sincrotró) ; Meijer, Wilfried J. J. (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa)
Antibiotic resistance is a serious global problem. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARG), which are widespread in environmental bacteria, can be transferred to pathogenic bacteria via horizontal gene transfer (HGT). [...]
2017 - 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006586
PLoS Genetics, Vol. 13, issue 2 (Feb. 2017) , e1006586  

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