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Prolonged incubation in calcium chloride improves the competence of Escherichia coli cells.

M. Dagert, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1979 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 23-28
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Escherichia coli cells are 4--6 times more transformable and 20--30 times more competent after 24 h incubation in cold calcium chloride than immediately after calcium chloride treatment.
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This article is published in Gene.The article was published on 1979-01-01. It has received 1354 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Calcium & Incubation.

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Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.

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Calcium-dependent bacteriophage DNA infection.

TL;DR: Escherichia coli cells of strain K12 and C can be made competent to take up temperate phage DNA without the use of “helper phage”, and is effective for both linear and circular DNA molecules.