A recently isolated human commensal Escherichia coli ST10 clone member mediates enhanced thermotolerance and tetrathionate respiration on a P1 phage‐derived IncY plasmid

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The ubiquitousness of commensal Escherichia coli in post-industrial humans calls for the investigation of their physiological characteristics. Thermotolerance, unconventional anaerobic respiration and detoxification cargo genes are encoded on an IncY derived plasmid harboured by a typical member of the common ST10 clone. Thermotolerance is well represented in commensal isolates with the key disaggregase ClpGGI to be exquisitely thermostable.

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