Nature

Bacterial transformation articles from across Nature Portfolio

Bacterial transformation is the stable genetic modification of bacteria with foreign DNA. It is a routine procedure in molecular biology, most commonly practiced as the introduction of a DNA plasmid ...
Nature

Bacterial transformation: distribution, shared mechanisms and divergent control

This Review discusses natural bacterial transformation, highlighting the common and divergent features that exist in a phylogenetically diverse range of naturally transformable species. Transformation ...
UC San Francisco

James Fraser Delivers 2020 Byers Award Lecture on the War Against Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

James Fraser, PhD, delivers the 2020 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science, a talk titled “A Song of Ice and Fire: Visualizing Macromolecules Using Cold Electrons and Hot X-Rays.” Photo by Sonya Yruel ...
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Nonchromosomal Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: Genetic Transformation of Escherichia coli by R-Factor DNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 69, No. 8 (Aug., 1972), pp. 2110-2114 (5 pages) Transformation of E. coli cells treated with CaCl 2 to multiple ...
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Particle-bombardment-mediated co-transformation of elite Chinese rice cultivars with genes conferring resistance to bacterial blight and sap-sucking insect pests

Kexuan Tang, Porntip Tinjuangjun, Yanan Xu, Xiaofen Sun, John A. Gatehouse, Pamela C. Ronald, Huaxiong Qi, Xinggui Lu, Paul Christou and Ajay Kohli Transgenic rice plants were generated using particle ...