Elaboration of an electroporation protocol for Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-548

  Turgeon, Nathalie ^a   Laflamme, Christian ^a   Ho, Jim ^b   Duchaine, Caroline ^a,c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Electroporation; Glycine; Threonine; Wall weakening

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; PLASMID DNA; THREONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COUNT; ELECTROPORATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPORATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS ATCC 14579;

EID: 33750373154     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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