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What is an auxotroph?

What is an auxotroph? Here are some definitions.

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  1. Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation
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Highly efficient incorporation of exogenously supplied amino acids by these three auxotroph strains has been demonstrated using recombinant galactose oxidase.
To retain the AaargB sequence in the arginine auxotroph, the AaargB function was disrupted by insertion mutagenesis.
This plasmid was first transformed into glycine auxotroph of E. coli strain and subsequently transformed into lysine auxotroph of Mycobacterium bovis BCG strain to generate vaccine BCG. HIVA2auxo.
The yeast morphotype but not the mold, for example, has a cysteine dioxygenase activity and is a cysteine auxotroph.
This drastic increase in gene-targeting frequency reduced the labor required to isolate auxotrophic mutants, such as an arginine auxotroph, without the use of counter-selective compounds.
Differential expression of Met auxotroph, Escherichia coli DL41 pCOCK, has revealed proteomic variation in cells forced to use TeMet in the translation of proteins.

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