Genetic competence refers to the ability of some bacteria to undergo transformation — to take up exogenous DNA and incorporate it stably into their own genome. Naturally transformable organisms ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Campylobacter jejuni, a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis, is naturally competent. Like many competent organisms, C. jejuni restricts ...

We report here an alternative and easy approach to generate sufficient quantity of minimal gene expression cassette (promoter–open reading frame–terminator) DNA by PCR amplification using high ...