title: A novel method for increasing the transformation efficiency of Escherichia coli-application forbacterial artificial chromosome library construction.
abstract: Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries play a pivotal role in genomics studies. A crucial step in BAC library construction is the transformation of Escherichia coli by electroporation. Absolute efficiency (cfu/microgram DNA) is affected by a number of factors including the topological form and treatment of DNA samples. Here we report a simple new protocol using tRNA assisted precipitation that increased transformation efficiency by 70-fold for BAC ligations and up to 400-fold for plasmid ligations. The mechanism may involve altering or stabilizing the topographical form of the DNA molecules.
authors.affiliation: Clemson University Genomics Institute, Clemson, SC 29634, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D018274:Electroporation; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D015723:Gene Library; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial