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Singled out for integration

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Bacteria regularly swap genes among themselves. The structure of an enzyme that mediates the spread of certain DNA elements reveals the unusual way in which they take up residence in new genomes.

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Figure 1: The integron and integron cassette excision.
Figure 2: Structure of the recombination complex reported by MacDonald et al.1.

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