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