Journal of hazardous materialsEscherichia coliPlasmidsGene TransferHorizontalParticle Size
Plasmid engineering reveals size-dependent effects of plastic particles on horizontal gene transfer via transformation in Escherichia coli: Critical roles of plasmid size and plastic particle-bacteria spatial configuration.
Lingfeng Zhu, Xuelan Chen, Zhihao Zhao, Mingzhu Huang, Yuechen Zhu, Hongtao Li, Yanna Shao, Mengrong Wang, Sicheng Xiong, Baoshan Xing
Published: 202510.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140507
Abstract
Plastic particles impact antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) dissemination majorly via horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in environmental media, yet how different ARGs respond to plastic particles during HGT is rarely studied, and size-dependent effects…
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