A Conserved Helicase Processivity Factor Is Needed for Conjugation and Replication of an Integrative and Conjugative Element

The Bacillus subtilis Conjugative Transposon ICEBs1 Mobilizes Plasmids Lacking Dedicated Mobilization Functions

(2012) C. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Superfamily I helicases as modular components of DNA-processing machines

(2011) Mark S. Dillingham   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Differential regulation of two closely related integrative and conjugative elements from Streptococcus thermophilus

(2011) Nicolas Carraro et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Lateral gene transfer of streptococcal ICE element RD2 (region of difference 2) encoding secreted proteins

(2011) Izabela Sitkiewicz et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

ICEberg: a web-based resource for integrative and conjugative elements found in Bacteria

(2011) Dexi Bi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Repertoire of ICE in Prokaryotes Underscores the Unity, Diversity, and Ubiquity of Conjugation

(2011) Julien Guglielmini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding fold proteins: a growing family of genome guardians

(2010) Rachel Litman Flynn et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

RepD-mediated recruitment of PcrA helicase at the Staphylococcus aureus pC221 plasmid replication origin, oriD

(2010) C. Machón et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

PcrA Helicase Tightly Couples ATP Hydrolysis to Unwinding Double-Stranded DNA, Modulated by the Initiator Protein for Plasmid Replication, RepD

(2009) Andrew F. Slatter et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Polar Positioning of a Conjugation Protein from the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEBs1 of Bacillus subtilis

(2009) M. B. Berkmen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The ATPase Cycle of PcrA Helicase and Its Coupling to Translocation on DNA

(2009) Christopher P. Toseland et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Biological Diversity of Prokaryotic Type IV Secretion Systems

(2009) C. E. Alvarez-Martinez et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Autonomous plasmid-like replication of a conjugative transposon

(2009) Catherine A. Lee et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Ordered association of helicase loader proteins with theBacillus subtilisorigin of replicationin vivo

(2009) Wiep Klaas Smits et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

(2009) Daniel G Gibson et al.   NATURE METHODS

A conserved anti-repressor controls horizontal gene transfer by proteolysis

(2008) Baundauna Bose et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Non-hexameric DNA helicases and translocases: mechanisms and regulation

(2008) Timothy M. Lohman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Evidence for a functional dimeric form of the PcrA helicase in DNA unwinding

(2008) Ye Yang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH