Surface freshwater and groundwater are important aquatic ecosystems that harbor complex microbial diversity and are often used as drinking water. Therefore, the study of the microbiome of these waters is relevant, because ...

In the present study the role of direct procaryote-eucaryote interactions in the virulence of Bacillus cereus has been investigated. As a model of human enterocytes, differentiated Caco-2 cells were used. Infection of fully ...

This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences found in a large number of copies in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. In eukaryotes, TEs can be divided into two classes, named class I, which use RNA intermediates ...

Studies involving plasmid stability have started for at least two decades and have been growing in recent years, since pDNAs have had enormous potential as vectors in gene therapy, however the therapeutic use of these ...

En el año 2000 se presentó lo que se dio en llamar nuestro libro de la vida, el primer borrador del Genoma Humano. Aquello generó grandes expectativas por sus potenciales aplicaciones en beneficio de las ciencias biológicas. ...

The LysM (lysin motif) domain is a small globular domain of 42-65 amino acids long that is widely distributed in nature, it can be found in procaryotes and eucaryotes in more than 4000 proteins. One to 12 LysM domains bind ...