New Advances in Bacterial Plasmids
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 4209
Special Issue Editors
Interests: horizontal gene transfer; mobile elements; bacteria adaptation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bacterial plasmids serve as a platform on which genetic material is constantly exchanged and new combinations of genes necessary for adaptation to environmental conditions are assembled. For this reason, plasmids often bear the genes for resistance to heavy metals, toxins and antibiotics, metabolism of alternative energy substrates and xenobiotics, virulence, and other important traits. Since the discovery of plasmids in the middle of the last century, the interest in their study has constantly increased, and in recent years, it has been further boosted by the development and wide implementation of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. In particular, this has revealed the important role of plasmids in the evolution of antibiotic resistance and the emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant phenotypes in clinically important bacteria. This Special Issue is aimed at collecting original research and review articles on various aspects of plasmid biology.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Plasmid typing and classification
- Characterization of new plasmids
- Plasmid replication and plasmid stability
- Mobile elements in plasmid diversification
- Evolutionary and population dynamics of plasmids
- The role of plasmids in emergence of hypervirulent and/or multidrug-resistant strains
Dr. Mayya Petrova
Dr. Mikhail Edelstein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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clinically important bacteria
- environmental bacteria
- multidrug resistance
- biodegradation
- resistance to heavy metals
- bacterial adaptation, conjugative transfer of plasmids
- plasmids in biotechnology
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