Streptomyces albus J1074

Streptomyces albus J1074 is commonly used as a heterologous host for production of secondary metabolites
Its genome is one of the smallest within the Streptomyces genus, with a size of 6,841,649 bp, coding for 5,832 genes.
It also has one of the highest GC contents of all the streptomycetes, at 73.3%
S. albus J1074 has a valine- and isoleucineauxotrophic phenotype and is defective in the SalI

(SalGI) restriction-modification system, which means it can easily be genetically manipulated.

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