Kurcheti Pani Prasad
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education,
Panch Marg, off Yari Road, Versova, Mumbai-400061, Maharashtra
India
Review Article
Role of Plasmids in Microbiology
Author(s): Husne Banu and Kurcheti Pani Prasad
Husne Banu and Kurcheti Pani Prasad
Plasmids are not integral part of bacteria as their absence makes no harm. But the extraordinary properties carried by plasmids make them attractive to study their usefulness for microbes in a hostile environment and it has tremendous contribution for molecular biotechnology. There are many classification of plasmids based on their properties, compatibility or replication pattern but still many unidentified useful plasmids are remain. Two properties of bacteria namely antibiotic resistance and bioremediation have come from plasmids. Probably there are many researches on antibiotic resistance group of bacteria which transfer their determinants through R-Plasmids. These resistant plasmids are used for selective growth of positive clones in gene cloning experiments. But transfer of these plasmids, are quite harmful for aquatic animals as well as for human being, as it increases the antib.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9546.1000466