Conjugative plasmids often encode resistance to multiple antibiotics, allowing a single mobile genetic element to transfer across diverse selective environments. This co-selection is often invoked to explain the persistence and spread of multidrug resistance, with antibiotic resistance genes encoded on the same plasmid...
Heather D. Curtsinger, G. Quintero, Aidan Larish et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
Background Targeted-Antibacterial Plasmids (TAPs) are engineered mobile genetic elements that use bacterial conjugation to deliver selective CRISPR/Cas9 antibacterial activity against a specific target strain. Yet, the efficiency of TAPs is typically evaluated at a single time point, whereas the success of TAP-mediated...
S. Marolleau, J. Moreau, J. Buyck et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
A large-scale analysis of 364 diverse strains of the opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii as recipients of the broad-host-range conjugative plasmids R388 and RP4 reveals an additional layer of bacterial immunity directed at a class of genetic elements driving dissemination of antibiotic resistance.
L. Poiré, J. Baltenneck, Salomé Guillory et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
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