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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages 552-563Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2382
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- US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [R37 AI-42347]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are a diverse group of mobile genetic elements found in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. These elements primarily reside in a host chromosome but retain the ability to excise and to transfer by conjugation. Although ICEs use a range of mechanisms to promote their core functions of integration, excision, transfer and regulation, there are common features that unify the group. This Review compares and contrasts the core functions for some of the well-studied ICEs and discusses them in the broader context of mobile-element and genome evolution.
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