Transformance Custom Competent Cells
Need to make your cells highly competent for transformation? Take advantage of Lucigen's unrivalled expertise and proprietary methods of competent cell manufacturing. Lucigen's capabilities are proven by our success in developing cells with the highest transformation efficiencies available: E. cloni® ELITE (>2 x 1010 cfu/µg DNA) and SUPREME (> 4 x 1010 cfu/µg DNA) Competent Cells.
Lucigen's Transformance Custom Competent Cell Service offers:
- Construction of chemically competent or electrocompetent cells
- High transformation efficiencies
- Fast turnaround
- Quality control performance testing
- Large or small quantities
Excellent results are obtained with a wide variety of E. coli strains (see the table below for examples). Lucigen has also increased transformation efficiencies of low competency strains by 10-100 fold in just a few days. Contact Lucigen for details.
| Starting Sample | Resulting Transformation Efficiency (cfu/µg) |
| Strain "A" | 3.0 x 1010 |
| Strain "B" | 2.4 x 1010 |
| Strain "C" | 1.8 x 1010 |
| Strain "D" | 2.5 x 109 |
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