Publications by authors named "Benjamin Diel"

Plasmids are mobile DNAs that can adjust host cell functions for their own amplification and dissemination. We identified Quorum sensing flagella small RNA regulator (QfsR), a small RNA, transcribed from the virulence tumour-inducing (Ti) plasmid in the phytopathogen Agrobacterium fabrum. QfsR is widely conserved throughout RepABC plasmids carried by Rhizobiaceae.

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  • Bacteria usually have circular DNA, but some have linear DNA like Agrobacterium fabrum's special chromosome, which has hairpin ends.
  • Scientists studied the DNA of different bacteria to see if they had this linear structure and a gene called telA, which helps make it.
  • The findings show that getting the telA gene in a common ancestor led to a group of bacteria with linear chromosomes, suggesting the need to rethink how we classify Agrobacterium bacteria.
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