[Advances in gene engineering of microorganisms].
A novel branch of national economy--biotechnology is being developed, based on genetic engineering. The construction of strains using the methods of molecular cloning has led to-date to creation of new biotechnological processes. Further advance in biotechnology would be mainly promoted by the possibilities of application of gene engineering to reorganization of industrially important microorganisms. These are bacilli employed for production of vitamins, enzymes, insecticides; streptomycetes--the producers of antibiotics; yeasts applied in bakery industry, in production of fodder proteins; pseudomonads which will be helpful in development of effective biological means for protection of environment, etc. So, vector molecules based on plasmids and phages have been constructed for best-studied representatives of industrial microorganisms, the methods of introduction into the cell of hybrid DNA molecules worked out, the problems of optimization of foreign gene expression being currently solved.
D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D015003:Yeasts / Q000235:genetics*
Uspekhi gennoĭ inzhenerii mikroorganizmov.