He describes 454's success in
sequencing Mycoplasma genitalium online 31 July in Nature.
Although the genome of M. pulmonis is the largest of the four
sequenced mycoplasma genomes, the researchers were surprised to find that «several of the genes previously reported to be essential for a self - replicating minimal cell are missing in the M. pulmonis genome.»
Not exact matches
In a 1995 Science paper, Venter's team
sequenced the genome of
Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted microbe with the smallest genome of any known free - living organism, and mapped its 470 genes.
Ever since his group decoded the genome of
Mycoplasma genitalium, a parasitic bacterium that lives in the human urogenital tract,
sequencing maverick J. Craig Venter has wanted to remake the bug's genome in the lab.
We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08 — mega — base pair
Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI - syn 1.0 genome starting from digitized genome
sequence information and its transplantation into a M. capricolum recipient cell to create new M. mycoides cells that are controlled only by the synthetic chromosome.
On sabbatical leave in Ellson Chen's lab at Applied Biosystems, Inc. (1995 - 1997) he
sequenced the genome of Ureaplasma parvum and began his study of
mycoplasma genomics.
It is the third
mycoplasma to be
sequenced, and has the smallest
sequenced prokaryotic genome except for M. genitalium.
Researchers have
sequenced the genome of
Mycoplasma pulmonis, a microscopic bacterium that causes respiratory and genital infections in mice and rats.
The researchers identified 782 genes, the highest number among the four
mycoplasma genomes
sequenced to date.
Additional QC e.g.
sequencing and
mycoplasma.