Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Replication of bacterial plasmids in the nucleus of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

  • Zhichao Li,
  • Ralph Bock

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05651-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Genetic tools for research on red algae (rhodophytes) are lacking. Here, Li and Bock present an efficient genetic transformation system for a model rhodophyte, and show that the transgenic DNA can be maintained as an extrachromosomal multi-copy plasmid in the algal nucleus.