Acknowledgments
This work was supported by a MOSTI eScience grant 02-02-10SF0252 from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Malaysia, to K.N. A.N.O. and A.W.R.N. were supported by Higher
Degree Research Scholarships from Monash University Malaysia.
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This work was supported by a MOSTI eScience grant 02-02-10SF0252 from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Malaysia, to K.N. A.N.O. and A.W.R.N. were supported by Higher
Degree Research Scholarships from Monash University Malaysia.
References
1. Celec P, Gardlik R (2017) Gene therapy using
bacterial vectors. Front Biosci (Landmark Ed)
22:81–95
2. Narayanan K, Warburton PE (2003) DNA
modification and functional delivery into
human cells using Escherichia coli DH10B.
Nucleic Acids Res 31(9):e51
3. Chang CH, Cheng WJ, Chen SY, Kao MC,
Chiang CJ, Chao YP (2011) Engineering of
Escherichia coli for targeted delivery of transgenes to HER2/neu-positive tumor cells. Biotechnol Bioeng 108(7):1662–1672. https://
doi.org/10.1002/bit.23095
4. Barbier M, Damron FH (2016) Rainbow vectors for broad-range bacterial fluorescence
labeling. PLoS One 11(3):e0146827. https://
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146827
5. Dirks BP, Quinlan JJ (2014) Development of a
modified gentamicin protection assay to investigate the interaction between campylobacter
jejuni and Acanthamoeba castellanii ATCC
30010. Exp Parasitol 140:39–43. https://doi.
org/10.1016/j.exppara.2014.03.012
6. VanCleave TT, Pulsifer AR, Connor MG, Warawa JM, Lawrenz MB (2017) Impact of gentamicin concentration and exposure time on
intracellular Yersinia pestis. Front Cell Infect
Microbiol 7:505. https://doi.org/10.3389/
fcimb.2017.00505
7. Jones CH, Rane S, Patt E, Ravikrishnan A,
Chen CK, Cheng C, Pfeifer BA (2013) Polymyxin B treatment improves bactofection
efficacy and reduces cytotoxicity. Mol Pharm
10(11):4301–4308.
https://doi.org/10.
1021/mp4003927
8. Narayanan K, Lee CW, Radu A, Sim EU
(2013) Escherichia coli bactofection using
Lipofectamine.
Anal
Biochem
439
(2):142–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.
2013.04.010
9. Osahor A, Deekonda K, Lee CW, Sim EU,
Radu A, Narayanan K (2017) Rapid preparation of adherent mammalian cells for basic
scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis.
Anal Biochem 534:46–48. https://doi.org/
10.1016/j.ab.2017.07.008
10. Mavridou DA, Gonzalez D, Clements A, Foster KR (2016) The pUltra plasmid series: a
robust and flexible tool for fluorescent labeling
of Enterobacteria. Plasmid 87-88:65–71.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plasmid.2016.09.
005
11. Damas-Souza DM, Nunes R, Carvalho HF
(2019) An improved acridine orange staining
of DNA/RNA. Acta Histochem 121
(4):450–454.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
acthis.2019.03.010
12. Zhang N, Fan Y, Li C, Wang Q, Leksawasdi N,
Li F, Wang S (2018) Cell permeability and
nuclear DNA staining by propidium iodide in
basidiomycetous yeasts. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 102(9):4183–4191. https://doi.org/
10.1007/s00253-018-8906-8
40
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