Re: [DIYbio] Uptake of food transgenes by guy bacteria

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:05 PM, leaking pen <itsatrap@gmail.com> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally bacterial uptake is only of other
> bacterial dna, right? have we seen bacteria update plant dna in other
> circumstances?

Well you have to consider that Bt-toxin is 'originally' (it all came
from some RNA soup, way back whenever, or whatever) from a bacteria,
hacked to work in plants.

So I think this is more a question on horizontal transfer mechanisms,
which we know something about, and also about gene-shuffling. You'd
need to pick up the Bt from plants, then keep it around long enough so
it would shuffle some way or another to a working promoter...
requiring also it wasn't otherwise broken in the shuffle.

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