Escherichia coli strain:BLR(DE3) Genome sequencing. Escherichia coli strain:BLR(DE3)

Escherichia coli BLR(DE3) is a commercially available recA-deficient derivative of the widely used BL21(DE3) for recombinant protein expression. Here, we present the full genome sequence of BLR(DE3) and highlight additional differences with its parent strain BL21(DE3) that were previously unreported but may affect its physiology.