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Mycoplasmas as minimal organisms

Sebastian R Schmidl, Katrin Gronau, Nico Pietack, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher, Jörg Stülke
The phosphoproteome of the minimal bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae: analysis of the complete known Ser/Thr kinome suggests the existence of novel kinases.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2010, 9(6);1228-42
[PubMed:20097688] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sebastian Kühner, Vera van Noort, Matthew J Betts, Alejandra Leo-Macias, Claire Batisse, Michaela Rode, Takuji Yamada, Tobias Maier, Samuel Bader, Pedro Beltran-Alvarez, Daniel Castaño-Diez, Wei-Hua Chen, Damien Devos, Marc Güell, Tomas Norambuena, Ines Racke, Vladimir Rybin, Alexander Schmidt, Eva Yus, Ruedi Aebersold, Richard Herrmann, Bettina Böttcher, Achilleas S Frangakis, Robert B Russell, Luis Serrano, Peer Bork, Anne-Claude Gavin
Proteome organization in a genome-reduced bacterium.
Science: 2009, 326(5957);1235-40
[PubMed:19965468] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sven Halbedel, Claudine Hames, Jörg Stülke
Regulation of carbon metabolism in the mollicutes and its relation to virulence.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2007, 12(1-2);147-54
[PubMed:17183222] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Identification of a minimal gene set

Yusuke Azuma, Motonori Ota
An evaluation of minimal cellular functions to sustain a bacterial cell.
BMC Syst Biol: 2009, 3;111
[PubMed:19943949] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Steps on the way to an artificial organism

Daniel G Gibson, John I Glass, Carole Lartigue, Vladimir N Noskov, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Mikkel A Algire, Gwynedd A Benders, Michael G Montague, Li Ma, Monzia M Moodie, Chuck Merryman, Sanjay Vashee, Radha Krishnakumar, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch, Evgeniya A Denisova, Lei Young, Zhi-Qing Qi, Thomas H Segall-Shapiro, Christopher H Calvey, Prashanth P Parmar, Clyde A Hutchison, Hamilton O Smith, J Craig Venter
Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome.
Science: 2010, 329(5987);52-6
[PubMed:20488990] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Carole Lartigue, Sanjay Vashee, Mikkel A Algire, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Gwynedd A Benders, Li Ma, Vladimir N Noskov, Evgeniya A Denisova, Daniel G Gibson, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Nina Alperovich, David W Thomas, Chuck Merryman, Clyde A Hutchison, Hamilton O Smith, J Craig Venter, John I Glass
Creating bacterial strains from genomes that have been cloned and engineered in yeast.
Science: 2009, 325(5948);1693-6
[PubMed:19696314] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Daniel G Gibson, Gwynedd A Benders, Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch, Evgeniya A Denisova, Holly Baden-Tillson, Jayshree Zaveri, Timothy B Stockwell, Anushka Brownley, David W Thomas, Mikkel A Algire, Chuck Merryman, Lei Young, Vladimir N Noskov, John I Glass, J Craig Venter, Clyde A Hutchison, Hamilton O Smith
Complete chemical synthesis, assembly, and cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium genome.
Science: 2008, 319(5867);1215-20
[PubMed:18218864] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Carole Lartigue, John I Glass, Nina Alperovich, Rembert Pieper, Prashanth P Parmar, Clyde A Hutchison, Hamilton O Smith, J Craig Venter
Genome transplantation in bacteria: changing one species to another.
Science: 2007, 317(5838);632-8
[PubMed:17600181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Systematics

James A Lake
Evidence for an early prokaryotic endosymbiosis.
Nature: 2009, 460(7258);967-71
[PubMed:19693078] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Fumito Maruyama, Mitsuhiko Kobata, Ken Kurokawa, Keishin Nishida, Atsuo Sakurai, Kazuhiko Nakano, Ryota Nomura, Shigetada Kawabata, Takashi Ooshima, Kenta Nakai, Masahira Hattori, Shigeyuki Hamada, Ichiro Nakagawa
Comparative genomic analyses of Streptococcus mutans provide insights into chromosomal shuffling and species-specific content.
BMC Genomics: 2009, 10;358
[PubMed:19656368] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Antoine Danchin, Gang Fang, Stanislas Noria
The extant core bacterial proteome is an archive of the origin of life.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(6);875-89
[PubMed:17370266] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Peter Gogarten, Jeffrey P Townsend
Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2005, 3(9);679-87
[PubMed:16138096] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)