| Literature DB >> 11414321 |
T Irie1, Y Honda, T Watanabe, M Kuwahara.
Abstract
The effects of carrier DNAs on the transformation of the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus were analyzed. When lambda phage DNA was added to a transformation mixture containing protoplasts and CbxR vector plasmid, an increased number of drug-resistant transformants was observed on a screening plate containing 2 microg carboxin/ml. The highest efficiency (about 200 transformants/microg vector plasmid) was obtained by the addition of heat-denatured lambda DNA, which gave yields approximately 50-fold higher than the control experiment without a carrier DNA. To our knowledge, this is the first report on enhancement in transformation efficiency of fungal protoplasts by single strand carrier DNA.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11414321 DOI: 10.1007/s002530000535
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ISSN: 0175-7598 Impact factor: 4.813