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