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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Chemical synthesis rewriting of a bacterial genome to achieve design flexibility and biological functionality.

Jonathan E Venetz, Luca Del Medico, Alexander Wölfle, Philipp Schächle, Yves Bucher, Donat Appert, Flavia Tschan, Carlos E Flores-Tinoco, Mariëlle van Kooten, Rym Guennoun and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Jonathan E VenetzInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Luca Del MedicoInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexander WölfleInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Philipp SchächleInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Yves BucherInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Donat AppertInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Flavia TschanInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Carlos E Flores-TinocoInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Mariëlle van KootenInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Rym GuennounInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Samuel DeutschDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598.
Matthias ChristenInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland; matthias.christen@imsb.biol.ethz.ch beat.christen@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-7724-4562
Beat ChristenInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland; matthias.christen@imsb.biol.ethz.ch beat.christen@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-9528-3685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how to program biological functions into artificial DNA sequences remains a key challenge in synthetic genomics. Here, we report the chemical synthesis and testing of

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Caulobacter crescentusCodonDNA, BacterialGenes, EssentialGenetic EngineeringGenome, BacterialGenomicsSynthetic BiologyCodonDNA, BacterialCaulobacter crescentuschemical genome synthesisde novo DNA synthesisgenome rewritingsynonymous recoding

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PMID30936302
PMCPMC6475421

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