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2 ± 3.5) × 10 5colony-forming units of bacteria per gram but almost no culturable fungi.
BG-1 human ovarian adenocarcinoma cells were infected with a retroviral construct composed of an antisense 900 base-pair cDNA sequence of the amino-terminal region of BRCA1 . Three experiments (two of which were from independently made supernatants) showed that infection of pLXSN (vector alone) and BRCA1 antisense retroviral constructs into BG-1 cells yielded G418-resistant colonies at similar rates (titers ranged from 0.78 to 4.2 × 10 4colony-forming units/ml).
Bacterial cultures were prepared by resuspending the cells from overnight cultures in 10 mM MgCl 2 to the required optical density (OD 600 = 0.05; 1 OD 600 = 10 9colony-forming units (CFU)/ml).
While many of the tubes have dried out, all tubes in which agar was not dried out yielded an average of 10 3-10 5colony-forming units.
Koch [ 16 ] emphasized that certain genes could be eliminated without losing colony-forming ability.