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Published on: September 27, 2016
Transformation of undomesticated strains of Bacillus subtilis by protoplast electroporation
Diego Romero1, Alejandro Pérez-García, Jan-Willem Veening
1Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, E-29071 Málaga, Spain.
Abstract:
A rapid method combining the use of protoplasts and electroporation was developed to transform recalcitrant wild strains of Bacillus subtilis. The method described here allows transformation with both replicative and integrative plasmids, as well as with chromosomal DNA, and provides a valuable tool for molecular genetic analysis of interesting Bacillus strains, which are hard to transform by conventional methods.
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