Abstract
Immediately after uptake of tritiated DNA into the bacterial cell, the label is located adjacent to the cell wall. Cell fractionation studies indicate that the newly acquired DNA is bound to the cytoplasmic membrane, not the cell wall.
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YOUNG, F. Competence in Bacillus subtilis Transformation System. Nature 213, 773–775 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213773a0
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