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Intracellular competitions reveal the combination of active partitioning and addiction mechanisms as most advantageous for low-copy plasmid fitness
Johannes Effe, Mario Santer, Yiqing Wang…·Tal Dagan
The paper compares plasmid persistence strategies and finds that combining active partitioning with toxin-antitoxin systems maximizes plasmid fitness in prokaryotes.
DOI 10.1101/2025.02.11.637630