The complete nucleotide sequence of pCAR2: pCAR2 and pCAR1 were structurally identical IncP-7 carbazole degradative plasmids
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High-Resolution Comparison of Bacterial Conjugation Frequencies
Published on: January 10, 2019
Yurika Takahashi1, Masaki Shintani, Hisakazu Yamane
1Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|March 10, 2009
Abstract:
pCAR1 and pCAR2 are IncP-7 self-transmissible carbazole degradative plasmids. Their respective hosts showed clearly different conjugative host ranges. Their complete nucleotide sequences were virtually the same, and can be regarded as structurally the same plasmid, indicating that the difference in the conjugative host range was caused by host cell backgrounds.
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