The preprint of my PhD paper is out !
We show cooperativity between various mobile elements which exploit the Xer machinery for lysogeny in Vibrio cholerae.
Among them, the CTX bacteriophage, responsible toxigenic conversion.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Molecular interplay between Integrative Mobile Elements exploiting Xer drives the evolution of cholera pandemics
XerC and XerD are ubiquitous bacterial recombinases dedicated to chromosome dimer resolution. They add a crossover at a specific chromosomal site, dif, when activated by the FtsK cell division protein...