CGSC Strain#: 5037
Strain Designation: Y10      Source of Strain: Tatum and Lederberg
Other Designations: Cavalli 36
Sex: F- Chromosomal Markers: thr-1, leuB6(Am), glnX44(AS), rfbC1, thiE1
Strain Comments:

• leuB6(Am)-- Suppressed by serU suppressor (supH)
• glnX44(AS)-- Mutation is a C to T transition at nucleotide 34 (3rd position of the anticodon)
• glnX44(AS) was formerly called su⁺_II
• glnX44(AS) was formerly called supE44
• glnX44(AS) was formerly called glnV44
• rfbC1 was formerly called rfbD1
• thiE1 was formerly called thi-1
• Am = amber(UAG) mutation
• AS = amber(UAG) suppressor

References:

• Tatum, E. L., J. Lederberg 1947. Gene recombination in the bacterium. J.Bacteriol. 53:673-684
• Lederberg, J. 1947. Gene recombination and linked segregations in Escherichia coli. Genetics 32:505-525
• Lederberg, E.M. 1952. Allelic relationships and reverse mutation in Escherichia coli. Genetics 37:469-483
• Lederberg, J., E. L. Tatum 1953. Sex in bacteria: genetic studies 1945 - 1952. Science 118:169-175
• Okazaki, R, Okazakit, JL Strominger, AM Michelson 1962. Thymidine diphosphate 4-keto-6-deoxy-d-glucose, an intermediate in thymidine diphosphate L-rhamnose synthesis in Escherichia coli strains. J. Biol. Chem. 237:3014-26.
• 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