Affiliation:
1. Université de Lorraine, INRAE, DynAMic, Nancy, France
Abstract
In this issue of the
Journal of Bacteriology
, J.-S. Bourassa, G. Jeannotte, S. Lebel-Beaucage, and P. B. Beauregard (J Bacteriol 204:e00181-22, 2022,
https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00181-22
) showed that ICE
Bs1
propagation in
Bacillus subtilis
biofilm relies almost exclusively on transconjugants. It appears restricted to clusters of bacteria in a close neighborhood of initial donor cells, which are heterogeneously distributed in the biofilm and expand vertically toward the air-liquid interface.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology