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GENE TRANSFER AND GENETIC ENGINEERING. CHAPTER 8. Gene Transfer. Vertical to offspring Lateral (horizontal) to others in same generation. Bacterial Gene Transfer and Recombinant DNA Technology. Transformation Griffith’s experiment. Transformation. Mechanism Significance.
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GENE TRANSFER AND GENETIC ENGINEERING CHAPTER 8
Gene Transfer • Vertical to offspring • Lateral (horizontal) to others in same generation
Bacterial Gene Transfer and Recombinant DNA Technology • Transformation • Griffith’s experiment
Transformation • Mechanism • Significance Recombination?
Transduction • Mechanism • Significance Transducing phages: p1, p22 Can be used in genetic mapping http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/174/23/7876
Conjugation • Mechanism • Significance Conjugation pilus Also used for mapping
Plasmids • F plasmid (conjugation) • Resistance plasmids • Virulence plasmids
Plasmids (cont.) • Tumor-inducing plasmids • Agrobacterium tumefaciens and plants • Plasmids conferring novel catabolism Degradation pathways on a plasmid
Genetic Engineering • Genetic fusions • reporter fusions • promoter fusions
Genetic Engineering • Protoplast fusion • electroporation
Genetic Engineering (cont.) • Gene Amplification • Recombinant DNA cloning
Applications • Medical • Industrial • Agricultural • Hybridomas
Risks and Benefits Frankenstein? Frankenfoods?
Recombinant DNA technology • Plasmids- autonomous replicating extrachromasomal DNA • restriction enzymes
Homologous recombination Used to make gene knockouts in bacteria and yeast
Evidence for extensive transfer of antibiotic resistance genes inBacteroides sp. http://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/abigails