Screening for yeast mutants defective in recipient ability for transkingdom conjugation with Escherichia coli revealed importance of vacuolar ATPase activity in the horizontal DNA transfer phenomenon
Keywords: Horizontal gene transfer; Conjugation; Transformation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Interaction between bacteria and eukarya; Gene transfer from bacteria to eukarya; Transkingdom sex; Broad host range plasmid