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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 241-249Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro844
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Naturally competent bacteria are able to take up exogenous DNA and undergo genetic transformation. The transport of DNA from the extracellular milieu into the cytoplasm is a complex process, and requires proteins that are related to those involved in the assembly of type IV pili and type II secretion systems, as well as a DNA translocase complex at the cytoplasmic membrane. Here, we will review the current knowledge of DNA transport during transformation.
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