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Genome transplantation in bacteria: changing one species to another.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 Aug 2007
Lartigue Carole, Glass John I, Alperovich Nina, Pieper Rembert, Parmar Prashanth P, Hutchison Clyde A, Smith Hamilton O, Venter J Craig
Abstract excerpt
As a step toward propagation of synthetic genomes, we completely replaced the genome of a bacterial cell with one from another species by transplanting a whole genome as naked DNA. Intact genomic DNA from Mycoplasma mycoides large colony (LC), virtually free of protein, was transplanted into Mycoplasma capricolum cells by polyethylene glycol-mediated transformation. Cells selected for tetracycline resistance,...
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