You might also want to search the ATCC website, i think it is www.atcc.org.
There is also a culture collection in Europe ... I think it is DSMZ, but it is
in Germany I believe. These are places to order bacterial strains, etc. They
might help you find out more about your question.
Richard
Emir Khatipov wrote:
> I was also curious, and did the search myself after I saw the initial post.
> However, no clue where people get this strain from. I would just contact
> authors of original papers who used the strain. Check Pubmed
> (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ), as well as protein structure section at NCBI: some
> proteins were expressed in NB42 for crystallization. My guess is it is
> Neatene's NovaBlue strain, but there is no reference on their website. Maybe
> worth calling Novagen as well. The Australian link seems to be irrelevant:
> it's just a coincidental designation.
> Emir
>> "Steve" <sstod at family-net.net> wrote in message
> news:3D5AFB5D.85F10C51 at family-net.net...> > Dr. Blaschke,
> >
> > I'm no expert on E.coli strains, but you raised my curiosity so I did
> > some searching. Here's what I found.
> >
> > NB42 as an indicator strain for water quality monitoring in Sydney:
> >
>http://www.sydneywater.com.au/html/AER2000/html/qual_inland/hawkes_berowra_b> act.htm
> >
> >
> > Found it in the following HTML document. Perhaps Y.Q.GOSSER etal. would
> > reveal a source:
> >
> > HEADER KINASE 03-OCT-97 1AWO
> > TITLE THE SOLUTION NMR STRUCTURE OF ABL SH3 AND ITS RELATIONSHIP
> > TITLE 2 TO SH2 IN THE SH(32) CONSTRUCT, 20 STRUCTURES
> > COMPND MOL_ID: 1;
> > COMPND 2 MOLECULE: ABL TYROSINE KINASE;
> > COMPND 3 CHAIN: NULL;
> > COMPND 4 FRAGMENT: SRC-HOMOLOGY 3 (SH3) DOMAIN;
> > COMPND 5 EC: 2.7.1.112;
> > COMPND 6 ENGINEERED: YES;
> > COMPND 7 MUTATION: N64S, N120S
> > SOURCE MOL_ID: 1;
> > SOURCE 2 ORGANISM_SCIENTIFIC: HOMO SAPIENS;
> > SOURCE 3 ORGANISM_COMMON: HUMAN;
> > SOURCE 4 PLASMID: PGEX;
> > SOURCE 5 EXPRESSION_SYSTEM: ESCHERICHIA COLI;
> > SOURCE 6 EXPRESSION_SYSTEM_STRAIN: NB42;
> > SOURCE 7 EXPRESSION_SYSTEM_PLASMID: PGEX;
> > SOURCE 8 OTHER_DETAILS: EXPRESSED AS GST FUSIONS AND CLEAVED
> > KEYWDS KINASE, SH3 DOMAIN, TRANSFERASE, PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE,
> > KEYWDS 2 PROTO-ONCOGENE, MULTIPLE DOMAIN, LEUKEMIA
> > EXPDTA NMR, 20 STRUCTURES
> > AUTHOR D.COWBURN
> > REVDAT 1 28-JAN-98 1AWO 0
> > JRNL AUTH Y.Q.GOSSER,J.ZHENG,M.OVERDUIN,B.J.MAYER,D.COWBURN
> > JRNL TITL THE SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF ABL SH3, AND ITS
> > JRNL TITL 2 RELATIONSHIP TO SH2 IN THE SH(32) CONSTRUCT
> > JRNL REF STRUCTURE (LONDON) V. 3 1075 1995
> > JRNL REFN ASTM STRUE6 UK ISSN 0969-2126 2005
> >
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Steve Stoddard
> >
> >
> > Ulrich Blaschke wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone has informations about the E.coli strain NB42.
> > > A commercial source of the strain would be extremly helpful.
> > >
> > > thanks, Ulrich
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