Scientists have developed new methods in which an entire bacterial genome was cloned in a yeast cell by adding yeast centromeric plasmid sequence to the bacterial chromosome and modified it in yeast using yeast genetic ...
... new tool to excavate bacterial genomes that potentially hide a rich array of pharmaceutical treasures ... antibacterial compound that was effective against several bacterial strains, including Escherichia coli. Streptomyces ...
... newly sequenced bacterial genome from a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National ... inorganic mercury into its more toxic cousin. Few bacterial species are capable of this conversion, and exactly how the transformation ...
... synthesized drugs have long known that bacterial genomes contain a large number of "silent genes ... we can use bacteria's antibiotic resistance to intensively mine the bacterial genome for new drug leads," he ...
... junk DNA. Now it appears that the tidiness of these bacterial genomes may be attributed to an ancient protein. A new ... that their findings may be of use in the development of other antibiotics that target Rho. Most bacterial resistance to antibiotics is acquired through horizontal ...
... , Associate Director of the Core Laboratory Facility at VBI, remarked: "The S19 sequence was the first bacterial genome sequenced at VBI with the new Roche ...
... , in bacteria. The tool, which allows scientists to analyze many bacterial genomes at once, is more accurate than previous methods ... methods because it is a new way to analyze many bacterial genomes at the same time. It is also more accurate than previous ...
... . When the lytic pathway is selected, the virus utilizes bacterial resources to replicate and then destroys the host ... , in the lysogenic pathway, the viral genome inserts itself into the bacterial genome and replicates along with it, while ...
... a key oxygen tolerance gene (sod) from the bacterial genome. They also introduced a gene, PVL, from the bacterium ... - bacteria. "Taken together, this newly constructed bacterial strain, Cp/sod-/PVL, has substantially ...
... candidate," says Clardy. "Still, we need to study how it kills fungi, learn the mechanisms. We can look into other bacterial genomes and investigate other anti-fungal processes ...
... infections in cystic fibrosis patients. In a study published online today in Genome Research (www ... .org), researchers have used genomic techniques to study a particularly virulent strain of P. aeruginosa, uncovering ...
... a computational method that, with remarkable accuracy, predicts how bacterial proteins fold and interact. In the short term ... data, and some 800 or so bacterial genomes have been fully sequenced. But applying message passing to animals ...
... which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the identification of bacterial strains. This new resource, described in the open ... process". Species identification is achieved by sequencing the bacterial genome at seven key loci, uncovering ...
... of how bacteria regulate their gene expression. "Sequencing a bacterial genome has gotten to be pretty routine, but going ... the structure and abundance information for every gene in a bacterial genome allows researchers to take a more rational ...
... arrangements. Most bacteria have only one chromosome. The Rhizobiaceae is an unusual bacterial family in that all of its members have either two chromosomes ... species to allow the inference of a general model for bacterial genome evolution. It appears that the transfer of genes ...
