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• Total synthesis of a functional designer eukaryotic chromosome.

  Annaluru N, Muller H, Mitchell LA, Ramalingam S, Stracquadanio G, Richardson SM, Dymond JS, Kuang Z, Scheifele LZ, Cooper EM, Cai Y, Zeller K, Agmon N, Han JS, Hadjithomas M, Tullman J, Caravelli K, Cirelli K, Guo Z, London V, Yeluru A, Murugan S, Kandavelou K, Agier N, Fischer G, Yang K, Martin JA, Bilgel M, Bohutski P, Boulier KM, Capaldo BJ, Chang J, Charoen K, Choi WJ, Deng P, DiCarlo JE, Doong J, Dunn J, Feinberg JI, Fernandez C, Floria CE, Gladowski D, Hadidi P, Ishizuka I, Jabbari J, Lau CY, Lee PA, Li S, Lin D, Linder ME, Ling J, Liu J, Liu J, London M, Ma H, Mao J, McDade JE, McMillan A, Moore AM, Oh WC, Ouyang Y, Patel R, Paul M, Paulsen LC, Qiu J, Rhee A, Rubashkin MG, Soh IY, Sotuyo NE, Srinivas V, Suarez A, Wong A, Wong R, Xie WR, Xu Y, Yu AT, Koszul R, Bader JS, Boeke JD, Chandrasegaran S. Annaluru N, et al. Science. 2014 Apr 4;344(6179):55-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1249252. Epub 2014 Mar 27. Science. 2014. PMID: 24674868 Free PMC article.
• Engineering the ribosomal DNA in a megabase synthetic chromosome.

  Zhang W, Zhao G, Luo Z, Lin Y, Wang L, Guo Y, Wang A, Jiang S, Jiang Q, Gong J, Wang Y, Hou S, Huang J, Li T, Qin Y, Dong J, Qin Q, Zhang J, Zou X, He X, Zhao L, Xiao Y, Xu M, Cheng E, Huang N, Zhou T, Shen Y, Walker R, Luo Y, Kuang Z, Mitchell LA, Yang K, Richardson SM, Wu Y, Li BZ, Yuan YJ, Yang H, Lin J, Chen GQ, Wu Q, Bader JS, Cai Y, Boeke JD, Dai J. Zhang W, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf3981. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf3981. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280149
• 3D organization of synthetic and scrambled chromosomes.

  Mercy G, Mozziconacci J, Scolari VF, Yang K, Zhao G, Thierry A, Luo Y, Mitchell LA, Shen M, Shen Y, Walker R, Zhang W, Wu Y, Xie ZX, Luo Z, Cai Y, Dai J, Yang H, Yuan YJ, Boeke JD, Bader JS, Muller H, Koszul R. Mercy G, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf4597. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4597. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280150 Free PMC article.
• "Perfect" designer chromosome V and behavior of a ring derivative.

  Xie ZX, Li BZ, Mitchell LA, Wu Y, Qi X, Jin Z, Jia B, Wang X, Zeng BX, Liu HM, Wu XL, Feng Q, Zhang WZ, Liu W, Ding MZ, Li X, Zhao GR, Qiao JJ, Cheng JS, Zhao M, Kuang Z, Wang X, Martin JA, Stracquadanio G, Yang K, Bai X, Zhao J, Hu ML, Lin QH, Zhang WQ, Shen MH, Chen S, Su W, Wang EX, Guo R, Zhai F, Guo XJ, Du HX, Zhu JQ, Song TQ, Dai JJ, Li FF, Jiang GZ, Han SL, Liu SY, Yu ZC, Yang XN, Chen K, Hu C, Li DS, Jia N, Liu Y, Wang LT, Wang S, Wei XT, Fu MQ, Qu LM, Xin SY, Liu T, Tian KR, Li XN, Zhang JH, Song LX, Liu JG, Lv JF, Xu H, Tao R, Wang Y, Zhang TT, Deng YX, Wang YR, Li T, Ye GX, Xu XR, Xia ZB, Zhang W, Yang SL, Liu YL, Ding WQ, Liu ZN, Zhu JQ, Liu NZ, Walker R, Luo Y, Wang Y, Shen Y, Yang H, Cai Y, Ma PS, Zhang CT, Bader JS, Boeke JD, Yuan YJ. Xie ZX, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf4704. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4704. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280151
• Bug mapping and fitness testing of chemically synthesized chromosome X.

  Wu Y, Li BZ, Zhao M, Mitchell LA, Xie ZX, Lin QH, Wang X, Xiao WH, Wang Y, Zhou X, Liu H, Li X, Ding MZ, Liu D, Zhang L, Liu BL, Wu XL, Li FF, Dong XT, Jia B, Zhang WZ, Jiang GZ, Liu Y, Bai X, Song TQ, Chen Y, Zhou SJ, Zhu RY, Gao F, Kuang Z, Wang X, Shen M, Yang K, Stracquadanio G, Richardson SM, Lin Y, Wang L, Walker R, Luo Y, Ma PS, Yang H, Cai Y, Dai J, Bader JS, Boeke JD, Yuan YJ. Wu Y, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf4706. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4706. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280152 Free PMC article.
• Deep functional analysis of synII, a 770-kilobase synthetic yeast chromosome.

  Shen Y, Wang Y, Chen T, Gao F, Gong J, Abramczyk D, Walker R, Zhao H, Chen S, Liu W, Luo Y, Müller CA, Paul-Dubois-Taine A, Alver B, Stracquadanio G, Mitchell LA, Luo Z, Fan Y, Zhou B, Wen B, Tan F, Wang Y, Zi J, Xie Z, Li B, Yang K, Richardson SM, Jiang H, French CE, Nieduszynski CA, Koszul R, Marston AL, Yuan Y, Wang J, Bader JS, Dai J, Boeke JD, Xu X, Cai Y, Yang H. Shen Y, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf4791. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4791. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280153 Free PMC article.
• Synthesis, debugging, and effects of synthetic chromosome consolidation: synVI and beyond.

  Mitchell LA, Wang A, Stracquadanio G, Kuang Z, Wang X, Yang K, Richardson S, Martin JA, Zhao Y, Walker R, Luo Y, Dai H, Dong K, Tang Z, Yang Y, Cai Y, Heguy A, Ueberheide B, Fenyö D, Dai J, Bader JS, Boeke JD. Mitchell LA, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):eaaf4831. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4831. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280154
• Design of a synthetic yeast genome.

  Richardson SM, Mitchell LA, Stracquadanio G, Yang K, Dymond JS, DiCarlo JE, Lee D, Huang CL, Chandrasegaran S, Cai Y, Boeke JD, Bader JS. Richardson SM, et al. Science. 2017 Mar 10;355(6329):1040-1044. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4557. Science. 2017. PMID: 28280199