Often, the genes carried in plasmids provide bacteria with genetic advantages, such as antibiotic resistance. Plasmids have a wide range of lengths, from roughly one thousand DNA base pairs to ...

Critically, the team discovered how K. pneumoniae spread resistance genes: via plasmids. Plasmids are mobile genetic structures that can carry multiple resistance genes and spread them to other ...

Bacteria have multiple defence mechanisms they can use to build resistance to antibiotics, one of the major problems facing public health globally. One of these mechanisms involves plasmids ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids—small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids - small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable with ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...