Minimal genome: Worthwhile or worthless efforts toward being smaller?

D Choe, S Cho, SC Kim, BK Cho - Biotechnology journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial cells are versatile hosts for the production of value‐added products due to the well‐
established background knowledge, various genetic tools, and ease of manipulation …

Construction of a minimal genome as a chassis for synthetic biology

BH Sung, D Choe, SC Kim, BK Cho - Essays in biochemistry, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Microbial diversity and complexity pose challenges in understanding the voluminous genetic
information produced from whole-genome sequences, bioinformatics and high-throughput ' …

MinGenome: An In Silico Top-Down Approach for the Synthesis of Minimized Genomes

L Wang, CD Maranas - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Genome minimized strains offer advantages as production chassis by reducing
transcriptional cost, eliminating competing functions and limiting unwanted regulatory …

Evolution and function of the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae peroxiredoxin, a 2-Cys-like enzyme with a single Cys residue

T Gonchoroski, VG Virginio, CE Thompson… - Molecular genetics and …, 2017 - Springer
The minimal genome of the mollicute Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, the etiological agent of
porcine enzootic pneumonia, encodes a limited repertoire of antioxidant enzymes that …

Reconstructing gene content in the last common ancestor of cellular life: is it possible, should it be done, and are we making any progress?

A Mushegian - bioRxiv, 2014 - biorxiv.org
I review recent literature on the reconstruction of gene repertoire of the Last Universal
Common Ancestor of cellular life (LUCA). The form of the phylogenetic record of cellular life …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanistic Insights into the Auto-Regulation of PTEN and Its Related HECT E3 Ligases

Z Chen - 2017 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) is a lipid phosphatase
that dephosphorylates PIP3 to PIP2, and negatively regulates the PI3K/AKT signaling …