Strain WA251
- CGSC#: 5607
- Strain Designation
Designation Source Preference WA251 Arber W. 1 B251;Bc251 2 - Sex(Hfr,F+,F-,or F'): F-
- 2 Mutations:
Mutation Location Certainty Display lon- 9.90 1 lon- mal+([K-12])(LamS) 1000.00 1 [mal+]K-12(λS) - Comments:
- Not a K-12 strain. ( E.coli B)
- This is wild-type E. coli B cured of a defective prophage (1) and transduced to Mal+, LAMS with phage P1 grown on K-12 strain W3110 (2,3).
- References:
- COHEN, D 1959. A variant of phage P2 originating in Escherichia coli, strain B. Virology 7(1):112-26.
- Arber, W. 1961. Pathol.Microbiol. 24:1012-0
- ARBER, W, D DUSSOIX 1962. Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli. I. Host controlled modification of bacteriophage lambda. J. Mol. Biol. 5:18-36.
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