Transposon-based and plasmid-based genetic tools for editing genomes of gram-negative bacteria

E Martínez-García, V de Lorenzo - Synthetic gene networks: methods and …, 2012 - Springer
A good part of the contemporary synthetic biology agenda aims at reprogramming
microorganisms to enhance existing functions and/or perform new tasks. Moreover, the …

Searching for drug targets in microbial genomes

MY Galperin, EV Koonin - Current opinion in biotechnology, 1999 - Elsevier
Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of 10 bacterial pathogens
available in the public databases offers the first insights into the drug discovery approaches …

Prokaryotic gene clusters: a rich toolbox for synthetic biology

M Fischbach, CA Voigt - Biotechnology journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria construct elaborate nanostructures, obtain nutrients and energy from diverse
sources, synthesize complex molecules, and implement signal processing to react to their …

Targeted development of registries of biological parts

J Peccoud, MF Blauvelt, Y Cai, KL Cooper, O Crasta… - Plos one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background The design and construction of novel biological systems by combining basic
building blocks represents a dominant paradigm in synthetic biology. Creating and …

[HTML][HTML] The limitations of draft assemblies for understanding prokaryotic adaptation and evolution

N Ricker, H Qian, RR Fulthorpe - Genomics, 2012 - Elsevier
The de novo assembly of next generation sequencing data is a daunting task made more
difficult by the presence of genomic repeats or transposable elements, resulting in an …

MOB-suite: software tools for clustering, reconstruction and typing of plasmids from draft assemblies

J Robertson, JHE Nash - Microbial genomics, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Large-scale bacterial population genetics studies are now routine due to cost-effective
Illumina short-read sequencing. However, analysing plasmid content remains difficult due to …

Scaffolding and validation of bacterial genome assemblies using optical restriction maps

N Nagarajan, TD Read, M Pop - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: New, high-throughput sequencing technologies have made it feasible to cheaply
generate vast amounts of sequence information from a genome of interest. The …

Alternative hosts for functional (meta) genome analysis

W Liebl, A Angelov, J Juergensen, J Chow… - Applied microbiology …, 2014 - Springer
Microorganisms are ubiquitous on earth, often forming complex microbial communities in
numerous different habitats. Most of these organisms cannot be readily cultivated in the …

Rational design of a plasmid origin that replicates efficiently in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

AV Bryksin, I Matsumura - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Most plasmids replicate only within a particular genus or family.
Methodology/Principal Findings Here we describe an engineered high copy number …

plasmidSPAdes: assembling plasmids from whole genome sequencing data

D Antipov, N Hartwick, M Shen, M Raiko… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Plasmids are stably maintained extra-chromosomal genetic elements that
replicate independently from the host cell's chromosomes. Although plasmids harbor …