I think Martha Stewart's magazine has fairly liberal data deposition
policies as well.
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Eric A. Toth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
University of Maryland
I had a similar situation, i.e. the cells wouldn't grow past an OD of 0.1 on
minimal media, but in my case I did get protein expression. The way I got
around it was as follows. I grew the cells up in minimal media plus the
amino acids that suppress methionine biosynthesis, plus L-methionine.