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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Whole-genome combinatorial gene fusions generate novel genes for advanced microbial trait development.

Melody M McNay, Sabrina Baffert, Alan Greener, Christopher R Schvarcz, B Greg Mitchell, Helge Zieler

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Whole-genome combinatorial gene fusions generate novel genes for advanced microbial trait development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Melody M McNayPrimrose Bio, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0009-0003-9189-0984
Sabrina BaffertPrimrose Bio, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0009-0003-5671-0642
Alan GreenerPrimrose Bio, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0009-0005-6156-5800
Christopher R SchvarczPrimrose Bio, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0000-0003-3789-2033
B Greg MitchellScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037.ORCID 0000-0002-8550-4333
Helge ZielerPrimrose Bio, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0009-0000-0986-5826

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1321480Private funding N.A.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Translational fusion of two separate genes into a compound sequence encoding a fusion protein is a key evolutionary mechanism which underpins the emergence of new protein activities, families, and architectures. In biotechnology, gene fusion is a valuable molecular evolution tool for tagging proteins of interest and for combining or altering protein activities. To broadly demonstrate and harness the gain-of-function capabilities of fusion genes in a whole-genome approach, we constructed a "Function Generator™" fusion gene library containing pairwise combinations of 5,019 protein-coding sequences in the

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Gene FusionGenome, FungalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeGene LibraryOpen Reading FramesPhenotypeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsgene fusionheritabilitymicrobial strain improvementmolecular evolutionphenotypic diversity

Identifiers

PMID41945443
PMCPMC13079986

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