supercoiled, Mr approximately 3.5 x 10 (6)) by membrane electroporation of yeast cells
(Saccharomyces cerevisiae, strain AH 215) is mainly due to electrodiffusive processes. The
rate-limiting step for the cell transformation, however, is a bimolecular DNA-binding
interaction in the cell interior. Both the adsorption of DNA, directly measured with [32P] dCTP
DNA, and the number of transformants are collinearly enhanced with increasing total …