CGSC Strain#: 6868
Strain Designation: DB6656      Source of Strain: D. Botstein
Sex: F- Chromosomal Markers: lacZ624(Am), λ^-, trpA49(Am), pyrF79::Mu, rpsL179(strR), hsdR27
Strain Comments:

• lacZ624(Am)-- is a UAG mutation in the first segment of the lacZ gene as described in Zipser et al. 1970, JMB 49:251.
• trpA49(Am)-- is the amber mutation formerly called trp^-_8am by Brenner.
• Am = amber(UAG) mutation
• strR = streptomycin resist.

References:

• Bach, ML, F Lacroute, D Botstein 1979. Evidence for transcriptional regulation of orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase in yeast by hybridization of mRNA to the yeast structural gene cloned in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76(1):386-90.