Designer endosymbionts: Converting free-living bacteria into organelles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452310020300330
Direct transfer of a mycoplasma mycoides genome to yeast is enhanced by removal of the mycoides glycerol uptake factor gene glpF
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30645947/
intact bacterial chromosomes can be directly transferred to a yeast host cell where they can propagate as centromeric plasmids by fusing bacterial cells with S accharomyces cerevisiae spheroplasts
Synthetic gut microbiome: Advances and challenges
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037020305547