^*Plating efficiencies of various SSBs.

*Plating efficiencies were determined by taking ratios of number of transformants obtained with various SSB constructs in E. coli RDP317-1/pHYDEcoSSB by plating equal volumes from the same transformation mixes on Kan, Amp and 0.02% arabinose plates vs Kan, Amp and IPTG plates. The values have been tabulated from five independent experiments (with three replicates each). Averages with S.D. values are shown.