Sentence examples for competent organisms from inspiring English sources

Pneumococci are naturally competent organisms and can easily exchange DNA in their natural habitat, the human mouth and throat.

This is especially evident for S. pneumoniae where it was recently shown that the release of the intracellular virulence factor pneumolysin, as well as DNA, is due to the predation of genetically competent organisms on non-competent organisms surrounding them, a phenomenon named fratricide, which has been seen also in other bacterial species [37].

However, since the RecA from the naturally competent B. subtilis displays a relatively low kcat min−1 of 10.0, enhanced ATPase activity is not a trait common to all naturally competent organisms.

Neisseria meningitidis is a highly competent organism with a high recombination rate, and large chromosomal changes are common (Jolley et al., 2005; Schoen et al., 2008).

They may also play a pivotal role in maintaining genome and strain identity in this naturally competent organism: since multiple strains are often present in the same niche, DNA methylation may act to limit recombination between strains and thus preserve diversity.

Hemocytes have long been investigated as part of the innate immune responses to systemic infection [ 64], but have recently received substantial interest as a model cell type to understand the regulation of cell migration in the context of an intact and immune competent organism.

Regeneration-competent organisms are traditionally injured by amputation [ 15, 16], whereas in clinically relevant injuries such as local ischemia or traumatic injury, damaged tissue remains within the organ [ 17 19].

The vector must be a skin-compatible, expressing-competent organism or suborganism selected from the group consisted of plasmids, cosmids, jumping genes, transposons, adeno-associated viral and retroviral vectors.

With this contrast in mind, we elected to sequence exosome RNA from L. braziliensis and L. donovani in parallel in order to compare the exosome RNA trascriptome of an RNAi-competent organism with an RNAi-deficient one.

Competent social organisms will read the social signals of their peers.

Sequence analyses of the genomes of some studied competent bacterial organisms reveal that ComFB is not conserved in all species.