High osmotic stress improves electro-transformation efficiency of fission yeast

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 235-239

  Suga, Minoru ^a   Kusanagi, Isamu ^a   Hatakeyama, Toyomasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroporation; High osmolarity; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Transformation

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; YEAST CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPORATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0642333690     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00518-4     Document Type: Article

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