Room temperature electrocompetent bacterial cells improve DNA transformation and recombineering efficiency

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tu, Qiang ^a,b,d   Yin, Jia ^a,c,d   Fu, Jun ^a,c   Herrmann, Jennifer ^b   Li, Yuezhong ^a   Yin, Yulong ^d   Stewart, A Francis ^c   Müller, Rolf ^b   Zhang, Youming ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84964489688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24648     Document Type: Article

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