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Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) lacks a genomic island present in the chromosome of Streptomyces lividans 66.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2004
Zhou Xiufen, He Xinyi, Li Aiying, Lei Fang, Kieser Tobias, Deng Zixin
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Streptomyces lividans ZX1 has become a preferred host for DNA cloning in Streptomyces species over its progenitor, the wild-type strain 66 (stock number 1326 from the John Innes Center collection), especially when stable DNA is crucial for in vitro electrophoresis, because DNA from strain 66 contains a novel modification that makes it sensitive to oxidative double-strand cleavage during electrophoresis. Detailed...
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