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Karas Lab

Dr. Karas publication at Google Scholar

Selected publications

A Cytokinin Perception Mutant Colonized by Rhizobium in the Absence of Nodule Organogenesis

Published in 2007 in Science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5808/101

Conservation of Lotus and Arabidopsis Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins Reveals New Players in Root Hair Development

Published in 2009 in Plant Physiology

http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/151/3/1175.short

Cloning the Acholeplasma laidlawii PG-8A genome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a yeast centromeric plasmid

Published in 2012 in ACS Synthetic Biology

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb200013j

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Direct transfer of whole genomes from bacteria to yeast

Published in 2013 in Nature Methods

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2433

Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation

Published in 2015 in Nature Communications

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7925

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Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome

Published in 2016 in Science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/aad6253

An Expanded Plasmid-Based Genetic Toolbox Enables Cas9 Genome Editing and Stable Maintenance of Synthetic Pathways in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Published in 2018 in ACS Synthetic Biology

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssynbio.7b00191

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Development of a Transformation Method for Metschnikowia borealis and other CUG-Serine Yeasts

Published in 2019 in Genes

https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10020078

Direct Transfer of a Mycoplasma mycoides Genome to Yeast Is Enhanced by Removal of the Mycoides Glycerol Uptake Factor Gene glpF

Published in 2019 in ACS Synthetic Biology

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00449

Designer Sinorhizobium meliloti strains and multi-functional vectors enable direct inter-kingdom DNA transfer

Published in 2019 in PLoS ONE

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206781

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Trans-Kingdom Conjugation Within Solid Media from Escherichia coli to Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Published in 2019 in IJMS

https://www.mdpi.com/557316

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Efficient inter-species conjugative transfer of a CRISPR nuclease for targeted bacterial killing

Published in 2019 in Nature Communications

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12448-3

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