TB1 (E.Coli) Any Info Helpful

[Michael Benedik]

In article <1992Dec3.182959.10559 at vax.oxford.ac.uk>, dnicker at vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>
>	Am looking for genotype and important characteristics of E.Coli Strain
>TB1, ref.
>		Sliger(sp?), S.G. et.al. 
>Biochem.Biophys.Res.Comm.,169,1016-1020 (1990)
>
>	TB1 is mentioned in this paper, but no reference given, and all
>attempts at identifying this strain have failed.  Anyone heard of it?
>
>	Thanks in advance for any help you may provide. . .
>
>							Darren Nickerson
>							D. Phil. Student
>							Univ. of Oxford
>
>E-mail: DNICKER at VAX.OX.AC.UK

There is a standard strain TB1 used in a lot of molecular biology
labs. I don't know whether that is what you have or not becuase other
people may have called their strain TB1 also. But the standard strain
is an hsdR- derivative (restriction minus) of JM83. 
genotype should be: F- ara del(lac-pro) rpsL phi80dlacZM15
in other words the relevent genotype for you is 
blue white screen for cloning in pUC and derivatives, F- so no M13,
Pro- so needs proline on minimal plates, restriction minus, strep resistant,
Some version of TB1 floating out there also have a Tn5 which was used
to transduce in the hsdR allele, but the real strain is not supposed to
have it. The precursor to TB1 accidentally got released for awhile.

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