[DIYbio] Bacterial Chimerae or making photosynthetic Bacillus Subtilis

Hi!

While waiting for my construct / primers  (pGlowroplast + yeast fluorescent protein)  I  was thinking about doing something  in the meantime…

http://www.pnas.org/content/102/44/15971.full.pdf

 

This paper describes how CyanoBacillus was made…

 

Now I was thinking if I can fuse Cyanobacteria and Bacillus Subtilis. But through natural breeding (in a legal sense). I heard Cyanos are resistant to ampicillin naturally. I read Bacillus subtilis sometimes have a natural resistance against rifampicin (but where to get such a strain?).

 

Now incubate both bacteria in PEG (do I need to make protoplasts?) to make them fuse. Plate on Amp+Rif LB so the cells are forced to keep two chromosomes. Maybe the chromosomes will fuse at some point? After some time?


Or would it even be easier to introduce a bacterial photosynthesis pathway in B.Subtilis? Have never done much research on bacterial photosystems. But in plants it's quite complex.

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