Escherichia coli is naturally transformable in a novel transformation system

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 249-255

  Sun, Dongchang ^a   Zhang, Yanmei ^a   Mei, Yunjun ^a   Jiang, Hui ^a   Xie, Zhixiong ^a   Liu, Huihui ^a   Chen, Xiangdong ^a   Shen, Ping ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Natural transformation; Static culture

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIQUID CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA;

EID: 33751222237     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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