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DNA Integrity and Shock Wave Transformation Efficiency of Bacteria and Fungi

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29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2 (ISSW 2013)

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Delivery of DNA into bacteria and fungi is essential in medicine and biotechnology to produce metabolites, enzymes, antibiotics and proteins. So far, protocols to genetically transform bacteria and fungi are inefficient and have low reproducibility.

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  1. Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Juriquilla 3001, 76230, Querétaro, Qro, México

    Achim M. Loske & Francisco Fernández

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias s/n, Juriquilla, 76209, Querétaro, Qro., México

    Juan Campos-Guillén & Xóchitl Pastrana

  3. Departamento de Ingeniería Genética de Plantas, Unidad Irapuato, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios, Avanzados del IPN, Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-León, 36500, Irapuato, Gto, México

    Denis Magaña-Ortíz, Nancy Coconi-Linares & Miguel Gómez-Lim

  4. Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida, Av. Tecnológico, 97118, Mérida, Yucatán, México

    Elizabeth Ortíz-Vázquez

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  1. Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

    Riccardo Bonazza

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Devesh Ranjan

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Loske, A.M. et al. (2015). DNA Integrity and Shock Wave Transformation Efficiency of Bacteria and Fungi. In: Bonazza, R., Ranjan, D. (eds) 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2. ISSW 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16838-8_10

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