Ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA
Natural competence. 1-Bacterial cell DNA 2-Bacterial cell plasmids 3-Sex pili 4-Plasmid of foreign DNA from a dead cell 5-Bacterial cell restriction enzyme 6-Unwound foreign plasmid 7-DNA ligase I: A plasmid of foreign DNA from a dead cell is intercepted by the sex pili of a naturally competent bacterial cell. II: The foreign plasmid is transduced through the sex pili into the bacterial cell, where it is processed by bacterial cell restriction enzymes. The restriction enzymes break the foreign plasmid into a strand of nucleotides that can be added to the bacterial DNA. III: DNA ligase integrates the foreign nucleotides into the bacterial cell DNA. IV: Recombination is complete and the foreign DNA has integrated into the original bacterial cell's DNA and will continue to be a part of it when the bacterial cell replicates next.
In microbiology, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology, competence is the ability of a cell to alter its genetics by taking up extracellular ("naked") DNA from its environment in the process called transformation. Competence may be differentiated between natural competence, a genetically specified ability of bacteria which is thought to occur under natural conditions as well as in the laboratory, and induced or artificial competence, which arises when cells in laboratory cultures are treated to make them transiently permeable to DNA. Competence allows for rapid adaptation and DNA repair of the cell. This article primarily deals with natural competence in bacteria, although information about artificial competence is also provided.
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some similarity, the competence proteins generated by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria are different. Naturalcompetence sums up in three methods...
physiological state termed naturalcompetence. In H. parainfluenzae, competence is induced during the late stationary phase of growth. Natural DNA transformation...
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mediating attachment to various cells and tissues, twitching motility, naturalcompetence, microcolony formation, extensive intrastrain phase, and antigenic...
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main mechanism of acquiring new traits. This is facilitated by the naturalcompetence of the meningococci to take up foreign DNA. The commensal species...
conditions employed. Further studies suggested that the development of competence for natural genetic transformation may be substantially higher under appropriate...
it must first enter a special physiological state termed "competence" (see Naturalcompetence). Transformation is common in the prokaryotic world, and...
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pylori, suggesting naturalcompetence contributes to persistence of H. pylori in its human host and explains the retention of competence in most clinical...
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efficiency. For example, certain media supplements can increase the naturalcompetence of cells. Genotype of cells – Cloning strains may contain mutations...
linguistic competence, and language output is not seen as having any effect on learners' ability. Furthermore, Krashen claimed that linguistic competence is only...
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downstream of such genes. ComFC domains likely function as part of genetic naturalcompetence. The RNA's association with an upstream gene is highly unusual for...
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relative ease of handling and genetic manipulation facilitated by naturalcompetence has made it an attractive system for the study of several biological...
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