Table 1.
Bacterial strains used
Strain | Genotype and Phenotype | LPS structure | Motility | Cytotoxicity | exoS or exoU | Origin and reference | |
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Swimming | Twitching | ||||||
PAO1 | Wild-type wound isolate, Cm sensitive | LPS smooth, complete core | Yes | Yes | No [48] | exoS | M. Vasil [49] |
PAO1 ΔgalU | ΔgalU mutant | LPS rough, incomplete outer core | n/a | n/a | No [48] | n/a | [26] |
PA14 | Wild-type isolate from burn patient | LPS smooth, complete core | Yes | Yes | Yes | exoU | F. Ausubel [50] |
PA2192 non-mucoid (nm) | non-mucoid variant of mucoid CF isolate PA2192 | LPS rough, complete core | No | Yes | No | exoS | Our collection [18] |
LES | Epidemic CF isolate (Liverpool clone) | LPS rough, complete core | No | No | No | exoS | S. Lory [13] |
C3719 | Epidemic CF isolate (Manchester clone) | LPS rough, complete core | No | No | No | exoS | S. Lory [12] |
Abbreviation: Cm, Chloramphenicol