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Bacterial networking
Escherichia coli can conjugate to mammalian cells using a 'shuttle vector' plasmid system.
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011119-03
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Conjugation has classically been considered a bacterium-to-bacterium DNA transfer driven by the donor cell and is typically plasmid-encoded. Theoretically it is possible that any type of cell can serve as the recipient. In December Nature Genetics, Virginia Waters from the University of California, San Diego shows the first evidence for bacterial conjugation to mammalian cells.
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