Crude lysates of Staphylococcus aureus can transform Bacillus subtilis
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Journal of General Microbiology
|February 1, 1980
Abstract:
Plasmids can be transferred from Staphylococcus aureus to Bacillus subtilis by crude lysates prepared with penicillin or lysostaphin. These lysates mediate drug-resistance plasmid transformation in competent B. subtilis at an efficiency paralleling that of purified DNA.