If the original host DNA was in a plasmid format, then these generally re-circularize and remain in the cytoplasm. Figure 1: Diagram showing the process of generalized bacterial transduction. A) ...

Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that infect and parasitize bacteria. These phages can transfer DNA from one bacterium to another, through a process known as genetic transduction. This is ...

Bacteria have a sneaky evolutionary advantage: their own version of the internet for swapping survival solutions. It’s a living network of viruses that can shuttle genetic information between ...

AR genes are transferred between bacteria by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a collective term that encompasses several distinct processes. One such process, transduction, relies on bacteriophage, ...

During this process, some bacterial DNA may also be packaged and transferred, but this mechanism, called transduction, is thought to be rare and accidental. Now, John Chen and colleagues have ...

This is typical of eukaryotes, though a defined, functional autoproteolytic event for transmembrane signal transduction has not been seen in bacteria until now. Using the bacteria C. thermocellum ...

Scientists have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help ... processes – this process is known as signal transduction. "One of the big questions in biology ...