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Potential Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes From Transgenic Plants to Microorganisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Franck Bertolla ,
Elisabeth Kay  and
Pascal Simonet
Franck Bertolla*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne du Sol, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Elisabeth Kay
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne du Sol, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Pascal Simonet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne du Sol, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
*
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne du Sol, UMR CNRS 5557, Batiment 741, Université Lyon I, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Abstract

Evidence that genes were transferred during evolution from plants to bacteria was obtained from nucleotide and protein sequence analyses. However, the extent of such transfers among phylogenetically distant organisms is limited by various factors, including those related to complexity of the environment and those endogenous to the bacteria, designed to prevent a drift of the genome integrity. The goal of this article is to give an overview of the potentials and limits of natural interkingdom gene transfers, with a particular focus on prokaryote originating sequences fitting the nuclear genome of transgenic plants.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , June 2000 , pp. 390 - 393
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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