Interdomain Conjugal Transfer of DNA from Bacteria to Archaea | Zendy

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Interdomain Conjugal Transfer of DNA from Bacteria to Archaea

Author(s) -

Jeremy A. Dodsworth,

Lei Li,

Shiping Wei,

Brian P. Hedlund,

John A. Leigh,

Paul de Figueiredo

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

applied and environmental microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552

H-Index - 324

eISSN - 1070-6291

pISSN - 0099-2240

DOI - 10.1128/aem.00967-10

Subject(s) - methanococcus , archaea , bacteria , escherichia coli , biology , transformation (genetics) , methanosarcina barkeri , genetics , dna , horizontal gene transfer , microbiology and biotechnology , genome , gene , methanogenesis

Escherichia coli transforms the methanogenic archaeonMethanococcus maripaludis at frequencies ranging from 0.2 × 10−6 to 2 × 10−6 per recipient cell. Transformation requires cell-to-cell contact,oriT , andtra functions, is insensitive to DNase I, and otherwise displays hallmarks of conjugation.

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