Plasmid transfer in Streptococcus faecalis: Production of multiple sex pheromones by recipients
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Plasmid transfer in Streptococcus faecalis: production of multiple sex pheromones by recipients.
In a previous report (1978, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 75, 3479-3483), we showed that recipient strains of Streptococcusfaecalis excrete a heat-stable substance (sex pheromone) which induces donor cells carrying certain conjugative plasmids to become adherent, generating the cell-to-cell contact necessary for plasmid transfer. Since donors themselves could be induced to aggregate or “clump” by r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plasmid
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0147-619X
DOI: 10.1016/0147-619x(79)90029-5