A Glimpse into the World of Integrative and Mobilizable Elements in Streptococci Reveals an Unexpected Diversity and Novel Families of Mobilization Proteins

Identification and Analysis of a Novel Group of Bacteriophages Infecting the Lactic Acid Bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus

(2016) Brian McDonnell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Processing of Nonconjugative Resistance Plasmids by Conjugation Nicking Enzyme of Staphylococci

(2016) Rebecca M. Pollet et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The MPI bioinformatics Toolkit as an integrative platform for advanced protein sequence and structure analysis

(2016) Vikram Alva et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Biology of ICE Bs1 , an integrative and conjugative element in Bacillus subtilis

(2016) Jennifer M. Auchtung et al.   PLASMID

Streptococcal group B integrative and mobilizable element IMESag-rpsIencodes a functional relaxase involved in its transfer

(2016) Fabian Lorenzo-Diaz et al.   Open Biology

New Insights into the Classification and Integration Specificity of Streptococcus Integrative Conjugative Elements through Extensive Genome Exploration

(2016) Chloé Ambroset et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Structural Biology of Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems

(2015) Vidya Chandran Darbari et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Analysis of Streptococcus agalactiae pan-genome for prevalence, diversity and functionality of integrative and conjugative or mobilizable elements integrated in the tRNALys CTT gene

(2015) Aurore Puymège et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

TcpM: a novel relaxase that mediates transfer of large conjugative plasmids from Clostridium perfringens

(2015) Jessica A. Wisniewski et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Origin-of-transfer sequences facilitate mobilisation of non-conjugative antimicrobial-resistance plasmids inStaphylococcus aureus

(2015) Frances G. O'Brien et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural biology of the Gram-negative bacterial conjugation systems

(2015) Aravindan Ilangovan et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Replication and Active Partition of Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs) of the SXT/R391 Family: The Line between ICEs and Conjugative Plasmids Is Getting Thinner

(2015) Nicolas Carraro et al.   PLoS Genetics

Towards an integrated model of bacterial conjugation

(2014) Elena Cabezón et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Phylogenomics and the Dynamic Genome Evolution of the Genus Streptococcus

(2014) Vincent P. Richards et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Key components of the eight classes of type IV secretion systems involved in bacterial conjugation or protein secretion

(2014) Julien Guglielmini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bringing them together: Plasmid pMV158 rolling circle replication and conjugation under an evolutionary perspective

(2014) Fabián Lorenzo-Díaz et al.   PLASMID

Comparative genomic analysis of twelve Streptococcus suis (pro)phages

(2013) Fang Tang et al.   GENOMICS

Modular Evolution of TnGBSs, a New Family of Integrative and Conjugative Elements Associating Insertion Sequence Transposition, Plasmid Replication, and Conjugation for Their Spreading

(2013) R. Guerillot et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Prophage Excision Activates Listeria Competence Genes that Promote Phagosomal Escape and Virulence

(2012) Lev Rabinovich et al.   CELL

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

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

Evolution of Conjugation and Type IV Secretion Systems

(2012) Julien Guglielmini et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ICESp2905, theerm(TR)-tet(O) Element of Streptococcus pyogenes, Is Formed by Two Independent Integrative and Conjugative Elements

(2011) Eleonora Giovanetti et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Site-specific accretion of an integrative conjugative element together with a related genomic island leads to cis mobilization and gene capture

(2011) Xavier Bellanger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

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

(2011) Julien Guglielmini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mobility of Plasmids

(2010) C. Smillie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family trigger the excision and drive the mobilization of a new class of Vibrio genomic islands

(2010) Aurélie Daccord et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Autonomous plasmid-like replication of a conjugative transposon

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

Replication and conjugative mobilization of broad host-range IncQ plasmids

(2009) Richard Meyer   PLASMID

The replicons of Gram-positive bacteria: A family of broadly distributed but narrow host range plasmids

(2009) Keith E. Weaver et al.   PLASMID

Integrative Conjugative Elements and Related Elements Are Major Contributors to the Genome Diversity of Streptococcus agalactiae

(2008) M. Brochet et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Characterization of plasmids from human infant Bifidobacterium strains: Sequence analysis and construction of E. coli–Bifidobacterium shuttle vectors

(2008) Andrei N. Shkoporov et al.   PLASMID