Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome

Science

Volumn 351, Issue 6280, 2016, Pages

  Hutchison, Clyde A ^a   Chuang, Ray Yuan ^a,e   Noskov, Vladimir N ^a   Assad Garcia, Nacyra ^a   Deerinck, Thomas J ^b   Ellisman, Mark H ^b   Gill, John ^c   Kannan, Krishna ^c   Karas, Bogumil J ^a   Ma, Li ^a   Pelletier, James F ^d,f   Qi, Zhi Qing ^c   Richter, R Alexander ^d   Strychalski, Elizabeth A ^a   Sun, Lijie ^a,g   Suzuki, Yo ^c   Tsvetanova, Billyana ^a   Wise, Kim S ^a,c   Smith, Hamilton O ^a   Glass, John I ^a   Merryman, Chuck ^a   Gibson, Daniel G ^a,c   Venter, J Craig ^a,c   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CBRITE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; CODON; PROTEIN; RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; DESIGN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTAGENICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESSENTIAL GENE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; ARTIFICIAL CELL; CODON; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; CODON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; PROTEINS; RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84962227074     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6253     Document Type: Article

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