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Physiological studies of Escherichia coli strain MG1655: growth defects and apparent cross-regulation of gene expression.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2003
Soupene Eric, van Heeswijk Wally C, Plumbridge Jacqueline, Stewart Valley, Bertenthal Daniel, Lee Haidy, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Paliy Oleg, Charernnoppakul Parinya, Kustu Sydney
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Escherichia coli strain MG1655 was chosen for sequencing because the few mutations it carries (ilvG rfb-50 rph-1) were considered innocuous. However, it has a number of growth defects. Internal pyrimidine starvation due to polarity of the rph-1 allele on pyrE was problematic in continuous culture...
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