Let’s consider an example of a bacterial transformation protocol using chemically competent cells and heat shock. A single colony of Escherichia coli is transferred from an agar plate to a rich liquid ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E ...

Nature Protocols - Genetic transformation of tobacco NT1 cells with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. ... To achieve that, the plant cells and bacterial line must be prepared and grown in parallel.

Most bacteria use those genes to get slightly bigger, and don't undergo the dramatic transformation and growth that B. atropi does. There are many bacterial cells that can form threads with their ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Using state-of-the-art tools, scientists have described a million-atom 'tail' that bacteriophages use to breach bacterial surfaces. The ...

To address the global threat of antibiotic resistance, scientists are on the hunt for new ways to sneak past a bacterial cell ...

Listeria gets its host to build it an actin tail. Some intracellular bacteria use the host cell’s actin supplies to build their own transport system. The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes ...

Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these bacteria were integrated into the cells in the course of ...