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Strain CS520

• CGSC#: 6060
• Strain Designation

  Designation	Source	Preference
  CS520	Carbon J.	1

  
  
• Sex(Hfr,F+,F-,or F'): Hfr
• Hfr Point of Origin#: 2A
• PO Map Position: 12.20
• Direction of Marker Transfer: Counterclockwise
• 6 Mutations:

  Mutation	Location	Certainty	Display
  tyrT58(AS)	27.74	0	tyrT58(AS)
  trpA58	28.33	1	trpA58
  relA1	62.71	1	relA1
  spoT1	82.34	1	spoT1
  metB1	88.94	1	metB1
  glyV-50	94.63	1	glyV-50

  
  
• Comments:
  • This is the strain from which the DNA of the Clarke and Carbon plasmid bank was made.
  • This strain is probably Rac^- also. See: Kaiser and Murray 1979 Mol.Gen.Genet. 175:159. glyV50 was called suA58 or A58sul. See: Guest and Yanofsky 1965 J.Mol.Biol. 12:793.
• References:
  
  

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