Minimal genome: Worthwhile or worthless efforts toward being smaller?

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-211

  Choe, Donghui ^a   Cho, Suhyung ^a   Kim, Sun Chang ^a,b   Cho, Byung Kwan ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gene essentiality; Genome reduction; Minimal genome; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; GENOMIC INFORMATION; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MINIMAL GENOMES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS; VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS;

GENES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BUCHNERA; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME SIZE; INSECT; NASUIADELTO CEPHALINICOLA; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL GENOME; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; YEAST;

BACTERIA; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, MICROBIAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; YEASTS;

EID: 84957428248     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400838     Document Type: Review

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