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Unknown unknowns: essential genes in quest for function

The experimental design of a minimal synthetic genome revealed the presence of a large number of genes without ascribed function, in part because the abstract laws of life must be implemented within ad hoc material contraptions. Creating a function needs recruitment of some pre‐existing structure an...

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Autores principales: Danchin, Antoine, Fang, Gang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27435445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12384
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spelling pubmed-49931692016-08-31 Unknown unknowns: essential genes in quest for function Danchin, Antoine Fang, Gang Microb Biotechnol Special Issue Articles The experimental design of a minimal synthetic genome revealed the presence of a large number of genes without ascribed function, in part because the abstract laws of life must be implemented within ad hoc material contraptions. Creating a function needs recruitment of some pre‐existing structure and this reveals kludges in their set‐up and history. Here, we show that looking for functions as an engineer would help in discovery of a significant number of those, proposed together with conceptual handles allowing investigators to pursue this endeavour in other contexts. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4993169/ /pubmed/27435445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12384 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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