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sexduction
(redirected from Bacterial conjugation)

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sexduction /sex·duc·tion/ (-duk´shun) the process whereby part of the bacterial chromosome is attached to the autonomous F (sex) factor and thus is transferred from donor (male) bacterium to recipient (female).
sex·duc·tion (sks-dkshn)
n.
The process by which chromosomal fragments are transferred between bacteria by means of a specific plasmid.


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coli cloning and expression vectors, archaeal plasmids, plasmid-based expression systems for mammalian cells, bioinformatics tools and methods for plasmid sequence analysis and annotation, horizontal gene transfer mediated by plasmids, molecular machinery for DNA translocation in bacterial conjugation, plasmids for gene therapy, and plasmid DNA as prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases.
 
 
 
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