Unbiased homeologous recombination during pneumococcal transformation allows for multiple chromosomal integration events
J. Kurushima, N. Campo, R. van Raaphorst, G. Cerckel, P. Polard, J.-W. Veening
This study investigates pneumococcal transformation at the single-cell level, showing that multiple chromosomal integration events occur through unbiased homeologous recombination, with transformation efficiency capped at ~50%.
bioRxiv · Mar 15, 2020Microbiology