Search Results - "Smith, Hamilton O."
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Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases
Published in Nature methods (01-05-2009)“…We describe an isothermal, single-reaction method for assembling multiple overlapping DNA molecules by the concerted action of a 5′ exonuclease, a DNA…”
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Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (25-03-2016)“…We used whole-genome design and complete chemical synthesis to minimize the 1079-kilobase pair synthetic genome of Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. An initial…”
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Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-07-2010)“…We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-mega-base pair Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence…”
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Chemical synthesis of the mouse mitochondrial genome
Published in Nature methods (01-11-2010)“…We describe a one-step, isothermal assembly method for synthesizing DNA molecules from overlapping oligonucleotides. The method cycles between in vitro…”
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Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation
Published in Nature communications (21-04-2015)“…Eukaryotic microalgae hold great promise for the bioproduction of fuels and higher value chemicals. However, compared with model genetic organisms such as…”
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Essential metabolism for a minimal cell
Published in eLife (18-01-2019)“…JCVI-syn3A, a robust minimal cell with a 543 kbp genome and 493 genes, provides a versatile platform to study the basics of life. Using the vast amount of…”
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One-step assembly in yeast of 25 overlapping DNA fragments to form a complete synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-12-2008)“…We previously reported assembly and cloning of the synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0 genome in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by recombination of…”
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Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03-08-2007)“…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…”
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Essential Genes of a Minimal Bacterium
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-01-2006)“…Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in pure culture. It has a minimal metabolism and little genomic redundancy…”
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Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-04-2004)“…We have applied "whole-genome shotgun sequencing" to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples…”
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Direct transfer of whole genomes from bacteria to yeast
Published in Nature methods (01-05-2013)“…A direct transfer of bacterial genomic DNA to yeast enables genome engineering in genetically intractable bacteria. Transfer of genomes into yeast facilitates…”
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Heterologous expression of Alteromonas macleodii and Thiocapsa roseopersicina [NiFe] hydrogenases in Synechococcus elongatus
Published in PloS one (26-05-2011)“…Oxygen-tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenases may be used in future photobiological hydrogen production systems once the enzymes can be heterologously expressed in host…”
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Gross Chromosomal Rearrangements in Kluyveromyces marxianus Revealed by Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (01-10-2020)“…( ) is an increasingly popular industrially relevant yeast. It is known to possess a highly efficient non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway that promotes…”
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Bacterial genome reduction using the progressive clustering of deletions via yeast sexual cycling
Published in Genome research (01-03-2015)“…The availability of genetically tractable organisms with simple genomes is critical for the rapid, systems-level understanding of basic biological processes…”
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Tuning Gene Activity by Inducible and Targeted Regulation of Gene Expression in Minimal Bacterial Cells
Published in ACS synthetic biology (15-06-2018)“…Functional genomics studies in minimal mycoplasma cells enable unobstructed access to some of the most fundamental processes in biology. Conventional…”
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[NiFe] Hydrogenase from Alteromonas macleodii with Unusual Stability in the Presence of Oxygen and High Temperature
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-03-2011)“…Hydrogenases are enzymes involved in the bioproduction of hydrogen, a clean alternative energy source whose combustion generates water as the only end product…”
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Global Transposon Mutagenesis and a Minimal Mycoplasma Genome
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-12-1999)“…Mycoplasma genitalium with 517 genes has the smallest gene complement of any independently replicating cell so far identified. Global transposon mutagenesis…”
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Kinetic Modeling of the Genetic Information Processes in a Minimal Cell
Published in Frontiers in molecular biosciences (28-11-2019)“…JCVI-syn3A is a minimal bacterial cell with a 543 kbp genome consisting of 493 genes. For this slow growing minimal cell with a 105 min doubling time, we…”
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Designed surface residue substitutions in [NiFe] hydrogenase that improve electron transfer characteristics
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (16-01-2015)“…Photobiological hydrogen production is an attractive, carbon-neutral means to convert solar energy to hydrogen. We build on previous research improving the…”
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A systems biology tour de force for a near-minimal bacterium
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