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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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Role of the proregion in the production and secretion of the Yarrowia lipolytica alkaline extracellular protease.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the AEP prosequence plays an additional essential role in guiding the proper folding of the protein into a conformation compatible with secretion.
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Isolation and characterization of P1 minireplicons, lambda-P1:5R and lambda-P1:5L.

N Sternberg, +1 more
TL;DR: The results show that the relative copy numbers of exerting and responding elements are important for the incompatibility phenotype and strongly suggest that lambda-P1:5L plasmids lack a repressor of replication that can be supplied in trans from P1 but not from EcoRI fragment 5.
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A double layer plaque assay using spread plate technique for enumeration of bacteriophage MS2

TL;DR: The optimized plaque assay significantly improved visibility and consistency of the existing plaque assay methods and could be used in quantification of MS2.
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Structure and evolution of the bovine prothrombin gene.

TL;DR: The cloned bovine prothrombin gene has been characterized by partial DNA sequence analysis, including the 5' and 3' flanking sequences and all the intron-exon junctions, suggesting that introns have been inserted into these regions after the initial gene duplication events.
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Virulence genes are carried by a megaplasmid of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas solanacearum.

TL;DR: A class of avirulent mutants of the plant pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum, strain GMI1000, resistant to acridine orange, harbour a deletion of over 85 kb in their genome, suggesting that the majority of virulence genes identified so far are plasmid borne.
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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.