Metabolic Plasmids

  • Enable specialized metabolic functions:
    • Unusual substrate utilization
    • Xenobiotic degradation
    • Nitrogen fixation (rhizosphere bacteria)
    • Polysaccharide degradation (marine bacteria)
  • Environmental adaptations:
    • Amino acid metabolism
    • Vitamin synthesis
    • Cell wall/capsule formation

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