For more than 25 years, Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 has been used in molecular biology
studies that address a broad range of questions. Recently, the rapid accumulation of data …

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 is a non-pathogenic soil bacterium known for its metabolic
diversity and high natural transformation and recombination efficiency. For these features, A …

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 has the potential to be a versatile bacterial host for synthetic
biology because it is naturally transformable. To examine the genetic reliability of this …

The genomes of most bacteria contain mobile DNA elements that can contribute to
undesirable genetic instability in engineered cells. In particular, transposable insertion …

Natural transformation and homologous recombination in a soil bacterium, Acinetobacter
baylyi ADP1, occur with exceptionally high efficiency. These genetic features can be …

Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 is a naturally transformable gram-negative bacterium with
simple culture requirements, a prototrophic metabolism and a compact genome of 3.7 Mb …

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 is naturally competent and proficient at homologous
recombination, so it can be transformed without restriction digests or ligation reactions …

One primary objective of synthetic biology is to improve the sustainability of chemical
manufacturing. Naturally occurring biological systems can utilize a variety of carbon sources …

We have constructed a collection of single‐gene deletion mutants for all dispensable genes
of the soil bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1. A total of 2594 deletion mutants were …

One goal of synthetic biology is to improve the efficiency and predictability of living cells by
removing extraneous genes from their genomes. We demonstrate improved methods for …