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ArticlesCopyright © 1983 by American Association for the Advancement of Science
High-efficiency ligation and recombination of DNA fragments by vertebrate cells
DNA-mediated gene transfer (transfection) is used to introduce specific genes into vertebrate cells. Events soon after transfection were quantitatively analyzed by determining the infectivity of the DNA from an avian retrovirus and of mixtures of subgenomic fragments of this DNA. The limiting step of transfection with two DNA molecules is the uptake by a single cell of both DNA's in a biologically active state. Transfected cells mediate ligation and recombination of physically unlinked DNA's at nearly 100 percent efficiency.
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)