Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space
D. Luecking, C. Mercier, T. Alarcon-Schumacher, S. Erdmann
The paper develops a method to isolate and analyze protected environmental DNA (peDNA) from marine samples, revealing that extracellular vesicles are a major contributor to non-viral sequence space and play a significant role in horizontal gene transfer.
bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2023Microbiology