EXPRESSION OF CONJUGATION GENES IS CONTROLLED BY PROCESSIVE ANTITERMINATION AND A NOVEL ZIPPER-TYPE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ATTENUATION MECHANISM
Daniel González Álvarez, Andrés Miguel-Arribas, Sandeepani Ranaweera, Fernando Freire-Gómez, David Abia, Anne de Jong, Ling Juan Wu, Paul Babitzke, Wilfried J. J. Meijer
The paper identifies a novel zipper-type transcriptional attenuation mechanism that controls expression of conjugation genes in Bacillus subtilis plasmids.
bioRxiv · Nov 24, 2025 · PreprintMolecular Biology