title: Horizontal gene transfer: linking sex and cell fate.
abstract: Integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) enable horizontal gene transfer among bacteria. In Pseudomonas, only a phenotypically distinct subpopulation of ICE-bearing cells can mobilize ICE DNA to new hosts. Transfer competence is a terminal state; division is limited, and many cells lyse.
authors: Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. bdavis@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
authors: Brigid M
authors: BM
authors: Davis
authors: Matthew K
authors: MK
authors: Waldor
mesh_terms: D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology*; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial