TEs can contain many types of genes, including those conferring antibiotic resistance and ability to transpose to conjugative plasmids.
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Most conjugative plasmids have systems ensuring that the " recipient " cell does not already contain a similar element.
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Emergence in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolates of the VIM-4 metallo-beta-lactamase encoded by a conjugative plasmid.
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It is seldom that a conjugative plasmid integrates into the host bacterial chromosome, and subsequently transfers part of the host bacterial DNA to another bacterium.
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When conjugation is initiated by a signal the "'relaxase "'enzyme creates a nick in one of the strands of the conjugative plasmid at the " oriT ".
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During conjugation the donor cell provides a conjugative or mobilizable genetic element that is most often a plasmid or transposon . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Most conjugative plasmids have systems ensuring that the recipient cell does not already contain a similar element.