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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2022

Cross-Genus "Boot-Up" of Synthetic Bacteriophage in Staphylococcus aureus by Using a New and Efficient DNA Transformation Method.

Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Roshan D'Souza, Rachel Buzzeo, Arti Tripathi, Lauren M Oldfield, Sanjay Vashee, Derrick E Fouts

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nacyra Assad-Garcia *Synthetic Biology and Bioenergy, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Roshan D'Souza *Genomic Medicine, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6576-7574
Rachel BuzzeoGenomic Medicine, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Arti TripathiSynthetic Biology and Bioenergy, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Lauren M OldfieldSynthetic Biology and Bioenergy, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0796-2192
Sanjay VasheeSynthetic Biology and Bioenergy, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6374-438X
Derrick E FoutsGenomic Medicine, The J. Craig Venter Institutegrid.469946.0, Rockville, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4323-7668
J. Craig Venter Institute · US

Funding

Development of FRESH (Fast Rescue Employing Self-Helper virus) - a rapid, generalizable method to rescue infectious virus from noninfectious genomic materialR21AI149448 · NIAID · J. CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE, INC. · PI VASHEE, SANJAY · 2020 to 2021
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NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI149448
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that causes a wide range of infections and food poisoning in humans with antibiotic resistance, specifically to methicillin, compounding the problem. Bacteriophages (phages) provide an alternative treatment strategy, but these only infect a limited number of circulating strains and may quickly become ineffective due to bacterial resistance. To overcome these obstacles, engineered phages have been proposed, but new methods are needed for the efficient transformation of large DNA molecules into S. aureus to "boot-up" (i.e., rescue) infectious phages. We presented a new, efficient, and reproducible DNA transformation method, NEST (non-electroporation Staphylococcus transformation), for S. aureus to boot-up purified phage genomic DNA (at least 150 kb in length) and whole yeast-assembled synthetic phage genomes. This method was a powerful new tool for the transformation of DNA in S. aureus and will enable the rapid development of engineered therapeutic phages and phage cocktails against Gram-positive pathogens.

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Staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus PhagesDNA, ViralHumansStaphylococcal InfectionsDNA, Viralbacteriophage assemblybacteriophage geneticsphage engineeringsynthetic biologytransformation

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PMID34818102
PMCPMC8824277
OpenAlexW3215760178

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