NOT AVAILABLE TO PROKARYOTES. “Respiring prokaryotes could have in principle done the same by amplifying a membrane-associated plasmid bearing only the relevant genes…However, “in practice such plasmids are not found”, and the alternative for bacteria (whole-genome amplification) would oblige them to replicate and express hundreds of other genes superfluous to energy production.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full