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Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety

Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Erwin R. Schmidt

    1. Institut für Molekulargenetik, Gentechnologische Sicherheitsforschung und Beratung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  2. Thomas Hankeln

    1. Institut für Molekulargenetik, Gentechnologische Sicherheitsforschung und Beratung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Horizontal Gene Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Gene Transfer Between Organelles and the Nucleus in Lower Eukaryotes

      • K. Wolf
      Pages 3-14

    3. Horizontal Transfers and the Evolution of Transposable Elements

      • P. Capy, C. Bazin, D. Anxolabéhère, T. Langin
      Pages 15-30

    4. Transposable Elements in Baculoviruses: Their Possible Role in Horizontal Gene Transfer

      • J. A. Jehle, J. M. Vlak
      Pages 31-41

    5. From Gene Transfer to Risk Assessment: Experiences with Genetic Variability in Baculoviruses and New Approaches to Analyse the Reaction of Microbial Communities to Stress Factors

      • H. Backhaus, A. Nickel, E. Fritsch, J. Huber, K. Wendt-Potthoff, B. Engelen et al.
      Pages 43-66

    6. Examination of the Putative Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Plants to Agrobacteria

      • I. Broer, W. Dröge-Laser, M. Gerke
      Pages 67-70

    7. Can Agrobacteria Be Eliminated from Transgenic Plants?

      • J. Landsmann, E. Graser, A. Riedel-Preuß, C. van der Hoeven
      Pages 71-76

    8. Preliminary Findings of DNA Transfer from Transgenic Plants to a Wild-Type Strain of Aspergillus niger

      • T. Hoffmann, C. Golz, O. Schieder
      Pages 77-84

    9. Gene Dispersal from Transgenic Crops

      • P. J. Dale, J. A. Scheffler
      Pages 85-93

    10. Evaluation of Potential Gene Transfer from Transgenic Plants

      • D. Mitten, K. Redenbaugh, J. Lindemann
      Pages 95-100

    11. Efficiency of Horizontal Transfer by Natural Genetic Transformation of Plasmids with Homology to the Pseudomonas stutzeri Chromosome and the Effect of DNA Restriction

      • M. G. Lorenz, B. Meyer, W. Wackernagel
      Pages 101-104

    12. Accidental Formation of Replication-Competent Viruses from Gene Transfer by Retroviral Vectors

      • D. Klehr-Wirth, M. Wirth, R. Grannemann, C. Münk, H. Häuser
      Pages 105-115

    13. Transgenic Expression of a Toxin-Coding Killer Virus of the Yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Genetic Evidence for a Possible Function of “Cryptic” Mycoviruses in the Evolution of Their Hosts

      • F. Neuhausen, M. J. Schmitt
      Pages 117-124

    14. Foreign DNA in Mammalian Cells and Organisms

      • W. Doerfler, K. Fechteler, H. Heller, C. Kämmer, M. Knoblauch, P. Koetsier et al.
      Pages 125-133

  3. Stability of DNA

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Persistence of DNA in the Environment and Its Potential for Bacterial Genetic Transformation

      • W. Wackernagel
      Pages 137-146

    3. Persistence of DNA in Natural Soils: Adsorption to Particulate Material Provides Protection Against Nucleolytic Degradation

      • S. A. E. Blum, M. G. Lorenz, W. Wackernagel
      Pages 147-154

    4. Degradation of Transforming DNA in a Groundwater Aquifer Microcosm by the Extracellular Nuclease of Serratia marcescens SM6 and Application of the Nuclease in a New Conditional Suicide System for Escherichia coli

      • I. Ahrenholtz, M. G. Lorenz, W. Wackernagel
      Pages 155-163

    5. A Conditional Suicide System for Genetically Engineered Bacteria Based on the Endonuclease I Gene of Escherichia coli

      • M. Jekel, M. G. Lorenz, W. Wackernagel
      Pages 165-169
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Gene/biotechnology and the broad use of genetically modified organisms is rapidly developing into a commercial enterprise. In spite of the pace of scientific progress in this field, a partly emotional debate is still being carried on by the general public and on the part of the consumer about the potential risks linked to this new technology. Especially when genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are tested in the open field, the question of "safety" is controversially discussed among different groups in society. Environmentalists are worried about unforeseeable dangers inherent in the release of a living organism, assuming that special risks are linked to organisms which have been modified by molecular biologists using tools developed in the laboratory. Frequently quoted potential hazards are the phenomena of "gene escape" and "genetic pollution", meaning the very interesting question of natural (horizontal) gene transfer. This phenomenon of horizontal gene transfer is in fact well known to scientists studying prokaryotes. Many prokaryotes are able to exchange DNA readily between individuals of different species or are even able to take up DNA from the extracellular environment by the process of genetic transformation, which has already been known for more than 65 years. For eukaryotes, however, the evidence of natural horizontal gene transfer is very limited.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Molekulargenetik, Gentechnologische Sicherheitsforschung und Beratung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Erwin R. Schmidt, Thomas Hankeln

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety

  • Book Subtitle: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes

  • Editors: Erwin R. Schmidt, Thomas Hankeln

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61460-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-61077-9Published: 27 June 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-61460-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 335

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Cell Biology, Biotechnology

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