1 GENE TRANSFER AND GENETIC ENGINEERING CHAPTER 8
2 Gene Transfer Vertical to offspring Lateral (horizontal) to others in same generation
3 Bacterial Gene Transfer and Recombinant DNA Technology Transformation –Griffith’s experiment
4 Transformation Mechanism Significance Recombination?
5 Transduction Mechanism Significance Transducing phages: p1, p22 Can be used in genetic mapping
6 Conjugation Mechanism Significance Also used for mapping Conjugation pilus
7 Plasmids F plasmid (conjugation) Resistance plasmids Virulence plasmids
8 Plasmids (cont.) Tumor-inducing plasmids Agrobacterium tumefaciens and plants Plasmids conferring novel catabolism Degradation pathways on a plasmid
9 Genetic Engineering Genetic fusions reporter fusions promoter fusions
10 Genetic Engineering Protoplast fusion electroporation
11 Genetic Engineering (cont.) Gene Amplification Recombinant DNA cloning
12 Applications Medical Industrial Agricultural Hybridomas
13 Risks and Benefits Frankenstein? Frankenfoods?
14 Recombinant DNA technology Plasmids - autonomous replicating extrachromasomal DNA restriction enzymes
15 Viral technology- phage cloning
16 Homologous recombination Used to make gene knockouts in bacteria and yeast
17 Transposons - jumping genes
18 Evidence for extensive transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in Bacteroides sp.