Paris (France) - Conjugation allows bacteria to acquire genes for antibiotic resistance, novel virulence attributes, and alternative metabolic pathways. Although conjugation has been studied for decades, there are many outstanding issues about how it works. Using a fluorescent protein fusion, SeqA-YFP, researchers from INSERM U571 and the University of Paris (France) have visualized this process in real time and in single cells of Escherichia coli.
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