Gene products involved in the naturally occurring process of bacterial conjugation are usually encoded on plasmids. A new study shows that in Mycobacterium smegmatis, a unique conjugative transfer is mediated by multiple cis-acting sequences present on the chromosome and requires host recombination functions.
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Bhatt, A., Jacobs, W. Conjugal rites of mycobacteria. Nat Genet 34, 3–4 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0503-3
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