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Design of an exclusive obligate symbiosis for organism-based biological containment
Amanda M. Forti, Michaela A. Jones, Defne N. Elbeyli…·Aditya M. Kunjapur
This paper designs an exclusive obligate symbiosis to create a biological containment system where one microbe produces a non-standard amino acid, and another depends on it for survival, demonstrating a chemical-to-biological dependence for biocontainment.
DOI 10.1101/2025.01.05.631398