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Transformation (genetics)

About: Transformation (genetics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11418 publications have been published within this topic receiving 454337 citations. The topic is also known as: genetic transformation & bacterial transformation.


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TL;DR: Competition with both transforming and non-transforming plasmids indicates that each cell is capable of taking up many DNA molecules, and that the establishment of a transformation event is neither helped nor hindered significantly by the presence of multiple plasmid molecules.

11,144 citations

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TL;DR: The transformation efficiency with Cs+ or Li+ was comparable with that of conventional protoplast methods for a plasmid containing ars1, although not for plasmids containing a 2 microns origin replication.
Abstract: Intact yeast cells treated with alkali cations took up plasmid DNA. Li+, Cs+, Rb+, K+, and Na+ were effective in inducing competence. Conditions for the transformation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae D13-1A with plasmid YRp7 were studied in detail with CsCl. The optimum incubation time was 1 h, and the optimum cell concentration was 5 x 10(7) cells per ml. The optimum concentration of Cs+ was 1.0 M. Transformation efficiency increased with increasing concentrations of plasmid DNA. Polyethylene glycol was absolutely required. Heat pulse and various polyamines or basic proteins stimulated the uptake of plasmid DNA. Besides circular DNA, linear plasmid DNA was also taken up by Cs+-treated yeast cells, although the uptake efficiency was considerably reduced. The transformation efficiency with Cs+ or Li+ was comparable with that of conventional protoplast methods for a plasmid containing ars1, although not for plasmids containing a 2 microns origin replication. Images

6,673 citations

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TL;DR: A large number of morphologically normal, fertile, transgenic rice plants were obtained by co-cultivation of rice tissues with Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and sequence analysis revealed that the boundaries of the T-DNA in transgenic Rice plants were essentially identical to those intransgenic dicotyledons.
Abstract: Summary A large number of morphologically normal, fertile, transgenic rice plants were obtained by co-cultivation of rice tissues with Agrobacterium tumefaciens The efficiency of transformation was similar to that obtained by the methods used routinely for transformation of dicotyledons with the bacterium Stable integration, expression and inheritance of transgenes were demonstrated by molecular and genetic analysis of transformants in the R0, R1 and R2 generations Sequence analysis revealed that the boundaries of the T-DNA in transgenic rice plants were essentially identical to those in transgenic dicotyledons Calli induced from scutella were very good starting materials A strain of A tumefaciens that carried a so-called ‘super-binary’ vector gave especially high frequencies of transformation of various cultivars of japonica rice that included Koshihikari, which normally shows poor responses in tissue culture

3,475 citations

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TL;DR: The transformation efficiency with Cs+ or Li+ was comparable with that of conventional protoplast methods for a plasmid containing ars1, although not for plasmids containing a 2 microns origin replication.
Abstract: When intact cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were treated with alkali cations or thiol compounds, the cells gained the ability to take up plasmid DNAs. The transformation efficiencies of yeast cells treated with alkali cations was greatly influenced by both the kind and concentration of cation used. The transformation efficiency also varied depending on the yeast strain. Polyethylene glycol was indispensable for the transformation. The uptake of plasmid DNAs into the yeast cells was found only in the presence of this polymer. Based on these results, the properties of transformation of intact yeast cells treated with alkali cations or thiol compounds were discussed.

3,091 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20244
20235,155
20229,037
2021307
2020268
2019254