Capillary-composited microfluidic device for heat shock transformation of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-378

  Sha, Jun ^a   Wang, Yaolei ^a   Wang, Jianchun ^a   Ren, Li ^a   Tu, Qin ^a   Liu, Wenming ^a   Wang, Xueqin ^a   Liu, Ajing ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Wang, Jinyi ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capillary; Escherichia coli; Heat shock; Microfluidic; Transformation

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY; CHEMICAL HEAT; CYLINDRICAL CHAMBERS; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLONING; HEAT SHOCK; HEATING SOURCE; LOCAL HEAT; LOW COSTS; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; PLASMID DNA; TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

BIOMOLECULES; CLONING; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUIDIC DEVICES; GENES; MICROFLUIDICS;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CAPILLARY COMPOSITED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; CELL DENSITY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HEAT SHOCK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TIME; TUBE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80054026329     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: 13474421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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