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RE: Brewing without Hops: Genetically engineering yeast to make hoppy flavor
They've kept the details of how they did it under wraps, but I'm sure it took forever.
They've kept the details of how they did it under wraps, but I'm sure it took forever.
In bacteria, genes for a given pathway are often linked together as "cassettes." The cassettes were like all-in-one kits with all the genes in the right order to make precursors and final product (in our case we spliced in about 7 genes for bacterial bioluminescence). http://davidcwhite.org/fulltext/382.pdf
I'm sure it's much more complicated in eukaryotes.
Yeah, Eukaryotic gene expression is a lot more complicated. You've got introns, histones, and a bunch of other regulatory factors to consider.