Sentences with phrase «mobile genetic elements»

Efficient spread of resistance within and between bacterial species is facilitated by mobile genetic elements.

After they made the jump, the human CC97 strains acquired some new capabilities, says Fitzgerald, thanks to genes encoded on portable pieces of DNA called mobile genetic elements.

«The most frequent way is the transfer via mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, or via transposons, the so - called jumping genes,» explains Friederike Hilbert, scientist at the Institute of Meat Hygiene at the Vetmeduni Vienna.

«The reverse is true as well: the bovine strains have their own mobile genetic elements.»

The complex network of evolutionary relationships the authors describe suggests that viruses evolved from non-viral mobile genetic elements and vice versa, on more than one occasion.

The most common mobile genetic elements are known as LINE - 1 retrotransposons and...

Today, an Associate Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) Basic Sciences division, and head of his own lab, Dr. Malik incorporates biochemistry and genomics to study genetic conflicts of, most notably: centromeres, innate and intrinsic immunity against viruses in primates, and mobile genetic elements in drosophila («fruit flies»).

Demonstrated that ABOBEC3G, in conjunction with RNA granules, functions to regulate endogenous mobile genetic elements (e.g., Alu RNAs), whose mobility contributes to a variety of human diseases including cancers and leukemias.

These phages and plasmids can easily move between bacterial cells, and scientists have known for some time that, as a result, these so - called mobile genetic elements can play important roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance.

The Viral MetaGenome Annotation Pipeline (VMGAP) pipeline takes advantage of a number of specialized databases, such as collections of mobile genetic elements and environmental metagenomes to improve the classification and functional prediction of viral gene products.

But efforts to identify the genes on the W chromosome that make silkworms female have come up short: the W does not seem to have any protein - making genes, and is instead almost completely filled with parasitic, mobile genetic elements called transposons.

CRE are Gram - negative bacteria that frequently express a gene that codes for carbapenemase — an enzyme that breaks down carbapenem and other antibiotics — and that is located on «mobile genetic elements» called plasmids, which can jump from one bacterium to another.

Retrotransposons are mobile genetic elements that use a copy - and - paste mechanism to insert extra copies of themselves throughout the genome.

So far, tribute has been paid to Nobel prize winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, who discovered telomerase; Barbara McClintock, who won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and Nancy Wexler, who was involved in the work to identify the gene for Huntington's disease.