Native plasmid-encoded mercury resistance genes are functional and demonstrate natural transformation in environmental bacterial isolates
Ankita Kothari, Drishti Soneja, Albert Tang, Hans K. Carlson, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay
The paper validates a native plasmid-encoded mercury resistance operon in groundwater bacteria and identifies strains capable of natural transformation.
mSystems · Dec 16, 2019Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology