Structure
The most common functional segments constituting F factors are:
- OriT (Origin of Transfer): The sequence which marks the starting point of conjugative transfer.
- OriV (Origin of Replication): The sequence starting with which the plasmid-DNA will be replicated in the recipient cell.
- tra-region (transfer genes): Genes coding the F-Pilus and DNA transfer process.
- IS (Insertion Elements): so-called "selfish genes" (sequence fragments which can integrate copies of themselves at different locations).
Some F plasmid genes and their Function Genes Function traA Pilin, Major subunit of the pilus.
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