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1 Historical Events That Spawned the Field of Plasmid Biology |
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II PLASMID REPLICATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR CONTROL |
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3 Mechanisms of Theta Plasmid Replication |
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4 Plasmid Rolling-Circle Replication |
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5 Replication and Maintenance of Linear Phage-Plasmid N15 |
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6 Plasmid Replication Control by Antisense RNAs |
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7 Topological Behavior of Plasmid DNA |
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III PLASMID MAINTENANCE, TRANSFER AND BARRIERS |
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8 Plasmid Partition Mechanisms |
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9 Resolution of Multimeric Forms of Circular Plasmids and Chromosomes |
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173 | (2) |
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10 Conditional Activation of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Postsegregational Killing and Beyond |
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11 The Interplay between Different Stability Systems Contributes to Faithful Segregation: Streptococcus pyogenes pSM19035 as a Model |
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12 The CRISPR-Cas Immune System and Genetic Transfers: Reaching an Equilibrium |
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13 Plasmid Diversity and Adaptation Analyzed by Massive Sequencing of Escherichia coli Plasmids |
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M. Pilar Garcillan-Barcia |
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14 Conjugation in Gram-Positive Bacteria |
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Nikolaus Goessweiner-Mohr |
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15 Mobilizable Rolling-Circle Replicating Plasmids from Gram-Positive Bacteria: A Low-Cost Conjugative Transfer |
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IV SPECIFIC PLASMID SYSTEMS |
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16 The Plasmid Mobilome of the Model Plant Symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti: Coming up with New Questions and Answers |
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279 | (16) |
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17 The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids |
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295 | (20) |
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18 The Influence of Biofilms in the Biology of Plasmids |
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315 | (10) |
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19 The Partitioning and Copy Number Control Systems of the Selfish Yeast Plasmid: An Optimized Molecular Design for Stable Persistence in Host Cells |
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20 Plasmids from Euryarchaeota |
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V PLASMID ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
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21 The Plasmidome of Firmicutes: Impact on the Emergence and the Spread of Resistance to Antimicrobials |
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22 Plasmid-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococci and Other Firmicutes |
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23 Plasmid Detection, Characterization, and Ecology |
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24 Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence in Gram-Negatives: The Klebsiella pneumoniae Paradigm |
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25 Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance |
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VI SPECIALIZED FUNCTIONS MEDIATED BY PLASMIDS |
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26 Plasmid-Mediated Tolerance Toward Environmental Pollutants |
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507 | (26) |
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27 Virulence Plasmids of Spore-Forming Bacteria |
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533 | (26) |
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28 Virulence Plasmids of Nonsporulating Gram-Positive Pathogens |
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29 Plasmid-Encoded Iron Uptake Systems |
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VII PLASMIDS AS GENETIC TOOLS |
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30 DNA Assembly Tools and Strategies for the Generation of Plasmids |
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31 Plasmids as Tools for Containment |
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615 | (18) |
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32 Mining Environmental Plasmids for Synthetic Biology Parts and Devices |
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633 | (18) |
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33 Using Plasmids as DNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases |
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651 | (18) |
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34 Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals |
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Duarte Miguel F. Prazeres |
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