Strain MG1655
- CGSC#: 6300
- Strain Designation
Designation Source Preference MG1655 Guyer M.S. 1 - Sex(Hfr,F+,F-,or F'): F-
- 2 Mutations:
Mutation Location Certainty Display LAM- 17.40 1 λ- rph-1 82.20 1 rph-1 - Comments:
- This culture was grown from lyophil Oct. 2003 and it tested Fnr+. The previous working culture was mixed fnr-/fnr+.
- References:
- Guyer, M.S., R.E. Reed, T. Steitz, K.B. Low 1981. Identification of a sex-factor-affinity site in E. coli as gamma delta. Cold Spr.Harb.Symp.Quant.Biol. 45:135-140
- Jensen, K.F. 1993. The Escherichia coli K-12 "wild types" W3110 and MG1655 have an rph frameshift mutation that leads to pyrimidine starvation due to low pyrE expression levels. J.Bacteriol. 175:3401-3407
- Blattner, FR, G Plunkett, CA Bloch, NT Perna, V Burland, M Riley, J Collado-Vides, JD Glasner, CK Rode, GF Mayhew, J Gregor, NW Davis, HA Kirkpatrick, MA Goeden, DJ Rose, B Mau, Y Shao 1997. The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12. Science 277(5331):1453-74.
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