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Strain W3208

• CGSC#: 5549
• Strain Designation

  Designation	Source	Preference
  W3208	Lederberg J.	1

  
  
• Sex(Hfr,F+,F-,or F'): F'
• 4 Mutations:

  Mutation	Location	Certainty	Display
  relA1	62.71	1	relA1
  spoT1	82.34	1	spoT1
  metB1	88.94	1	metB1
  creC510	99.89	1	creC510

  
  
• Comments:
  • W3208 was originally thought to be Hfr--Lederberg Hfr₈. When examined later it was F' It may be a primary F' and carry a chromosomal deletion corresponding to F8: DE( tolAB-gal)43.
• Episome/Plasmid: F8

  Plasmid Markers/Mutations:

• References:
  • Ohtsubo, E, MT Hsu 1978. Electron microscope heteroduplex studies of sequence relations among plasmids of Escherichia coli: structure of F100, F152, and F8 and mapping of the Escherichia coli chromosomal region fep-supE-gal-attlambda-uvrB. J. Bacteriol. 134(3):778-94.
  
  

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