CGSC Strain#: 3591
Strain Designation: CR63      Source of Strain: R.K. Appleyard
Other Designations: QAO
Other Designations: No.359
Sex: F+ Chromosomal Markers: λ^-, serU60(AS), lamB63
Strain Comments:

• lamB63-- allele sequenced gly 249 -> Asp (see Charbit et al. 1984).
• serU60(AS) was formerly called supD60
• AS = amber(UAG) suppressor

References:

• Appleyard, R.K., J.F. McGregor, K.M. Baird 1956. Mutation to extended host range and the occurrence of phenotypic mixing in the temperatre coliphage lambda. Virology 2:565-574
• Brenner, S., J.R. Beckwith 1965. Ochre mutants, a new class of suppressible nonsense mutants. J.Mol.Biol. 13:629-637
• Yanofsky, C., J. Ito 1966. Nonsense codons and polarity in the tryptophan operon. J.Mol.Biol. 21:313-334
• Eisen, H.A., C.R. Fuerst, L. Siminovitch, R. Thomas, L. Lambert, L. Pereira da Silva, F. Jacob 1966. Genetics and physiology of defective lysogeny in K12 (LAM): studies of early mutants. Virology 30:224-241
• Thirion, J.P., M. Hofnung 1972. On some genetic aspects of phage lambda resistance in E. coli K12. Genetics 71:207-216
• Hofnung, M., A. Jezierska, C. Braun-Breton 1976. lamB mutations in E. coli K-12: growth of lambda host range mutants and effect of nonsense suppressors. Mol.Gen.Genet. 145:207-213
• Braun, V., H.J. Krieger-Brauer 1977. Interrelationship of the phage lambda receptor protein and maltose transport in mutants of Escherichia coli K12. Biochim.Biophys.Acta 469:89-251