Plasmid vesicles mimicking virions

Patrick Forterre (1, 2) , Violette da Cunha (1, 2) , Ryan Catchpole (1, 2)

1 I2BC - Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule
2 Département de Microbiologie - Department of Microbiology

A newly described plasmid, which encodes proteins facilitating its packaging and cell-to-cell transfer via membrane vesicles, challenges the way we think about the delineation of viruses, plasmids and extracellular vesicles.

Domains: Microbiology and Parasitology

Patrick Forterre, Violette da Cunha, Ryan Catchpole. Plasmid vesicles mimicking virions. Nature Microbiology, 2017, 2 (10), pp.1340 - 1341. ⟨10.1038/s41564-017-0032-3⟩. ⟨cea-01887506⟩