Table 1 E. Coli strains with genotypes.

From: Simplified modeling of E. coli mortality after genome damage induced by UV-C light exposure

E.coli Strain

Genotype

Phenotype

Reference

HfrH180

(K12 hfr+)

Complete repairing systems

Lavoie and Mathieu29, Trudel et al. 30

W3110

F λ rph1, IN(rrnD, rrnE)

Slow pyrimidine de novo synthethic pathway

Bachmann31

ATCC25922

Clinical isolate

Complete repairing systems

Bergey’s manual32

polA+

W3110 thy thi PolA1+

Expression of polA polymerase

Espinosa-Aguirre et al.33

polA-

P3478 thy thi PolA

Lack of polA polymerase

Espinosa-Aguirre et al.33

DH5αthy-

recA thy

Lack of recA

Manrique-Suárez et al.34