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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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Ss‐LrpB, a novel Lrp‐like regulator of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2, binds cooperatively to three conserved targets in its own control region

TL;DR: A model for the construction of the higher order nucleoprotein complexes and a hypothesis for the autoregulatory process are presented based on the concentration‐dependent formation of distinct complexes exhibiting different stoichiometries and conformations, which could positively and negatively affect promoter activity.
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Cloning and analysis of cDNA sequences coding for two 16 kilodalton heat shock proteins (hsps) in Caenorhabditis elegans: homology with the small hsps of Drosophila.

TL;DR: Two-dimensional gel analysis of in vitro synthesized hsp16 reveals the existence of five distinct components of identical molecular weights, but with different isoelectric points.
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Isolation and characterization of yeast ring chromosome III by a method applicable to other circular DNAs

TL;DR: This method efficiently purifies large and small circular DNAs and thus has general applicability for isolation and purification of plasmids from yeast.
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Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding lipoamide dehydrogenase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

TL;DR: Immunoblotting experiments confirmed that transformants over-expressed lipoamide dehydrogenase protein, and transcription from the LPD1 sequence on plasmid pGP1 still appeared to be subject to some catabolite repression despite the presence of multiple copies of the plasmids in the cell.
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Amplification of a chromosomal region in Bacillus subtilis

TL;DR: There was a noticeable increase in amylase production, and the amount of enzyme produced correlated with gene dosage, after exposure of the bacteria to increasing levels of antibiotic.
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Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.

TL;DR: In vitro recombination techniques were used to construct a new cloning vehicle, pBR322, which is a relaxed replicating plasmid, does not produce and is sensitive to colicin E1, and carries resistance genes to the antibiotics ampicillin (Ap) and tetracycline (Tc).
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Nonchromosomal Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: Genetic Transformation of Escherichia coli by R-Factor DNA

TL;DR: Covalently-closed, catenated, and open (nicked) circular forms of R-factor DNA are all effective in transformation, but denaturation and sonication abolish the transforming ability of R.factor DNA in this 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.