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Synthetic yeast chromosome XI design provides a testbed for the study of extrachromosomal circular DNA dynamics (2023)
Journal Article
Blount, B. A., Lu, X., Driessen, M. R. M., Jovicevic, D., Sanchez, M. I., Ciurkot, K., …Ellis, T. (2023). Synthetic yeast chromosome XI design provides a testbed for the study of extrachromosomal circular DNA dynamics. Cell Genomics, 3(11), Article 100418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100418

We describe construction of the synthetic yeast chromosome XI (synXI) and reveal the effects of redesign at non-coding DNA elements. The 660-kb synthetic yeast genome project (Sc2.0) chromosome was assembled from synthesized DNA fragments before CRIS... Read More about Synthetic yeast chromosome XI design provides a testbed for the study of extrachromosomal circular DNA dynamics.

Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast (2023)
Journal Article
Schindler, D., Walker, R. S., Jiang, S., Brooks, A. N., Wang, Y., Müller, C. A., …Cai, Y. (2023). Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast. Cell, 186(24), 5237-5253.e22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.015

Here, we report the design, construction, and characterization of a tRNA neochromosome, a designer chromosome that functions as an additional, de novo counterpart to the native complement of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Intending to address one of the c... Read More about Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast.

Trimming the genomic fat: minimising and re-functionalising genomes using synthetic biology (2023)
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Xu, X., Meier, F., Blount, B. A., Pretorius, I. S., Ellis, T., Paulsen, I. T., & Williams, T. C. (2023). Trimming the genomic fat: minimising and re-functionalising genomes using synthetic biology. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37748-7

Naturally evolved organisms typically have large genomes that enable their survival and growth under various conditions. However, the complexity of genomes often precludes our complete understanding of them, and limits the success of biotechnological... Read More about Trimming the genomic fat: minimising and re-functionalising genomes using synthetic biology.