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Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2010 Feb 28;76(1):236–259. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07096.x

Table 1.

Strains and plasmids used in this study.

Strain or Plasmid Description Source or Reference
E. coli strains
SM10 λPir Conjugation competent strain Miller and Mekalanos (1988)
SY327 λPir Routine cloning Miller and Mekalanos (1988)
DH5α Routine cloning Cambau et al. (1993)
BL21-DE protein expression in E. coli Studier and Moffatt (1986)
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains
IP2666 pYV (pIBI) WT Yptb Ivanov et al. (2005)
IP2666 pYV- WT Yptb cured of the virulence plasmid J.M Balada, et al. (2006)
ΔyscF Deletion of yscF (codons 2–86) in IP2666 Davis and Mecsas (2007)
ΔyopBD Truncation of yopB and deletion of yopD in YPIII L. Logston, unpublished
ΔlcrV Deletion of lcrV (codons 19–326) in IP2666 This study
ΔyopN Deletion of yopN (codons 2–287) in IP2666 Davis and Mecsas (2007)
Plasmids
pGEM-T easy Cloning of PCR products; Apr Promega
pDS132 Suicide vector; Cmr Philippe et al. (2004)
pTRC99A IPTG-inducible expression vector; Apr Amann et al. (1988)
pBAD33 Arabinose-inducible expression vector; Cmr Guzman, et al. (1995)
pGEX-5X-1 GST fusion expression vector; Apr Amersham
pTRC99-yscF Expresses yscF from tac promoter Davis and Mecsas (2007)
pTRC99-yscF L54V Expresses yscF L54V mutant from tac promoter This study
pBAD-yscF Expresses yscF from araBAD promoter This study
pBAD-yscF L54V Expresses yscF L54V from araBAD promoter This study
pGEX-yscF GST-YscF fusion expression vector Davis and Mecsas (2007)
pGEX-yscF L54V GST-YscF L54V fusion expression vector Davis and Mecsas (2007)
pFlag-YscG-YscE-His Expresses YscG and YscE from tac promoter Greg Plano, Unpublished
pTRC99-his yscN Expresses His-tagged yscN from tac promoter This study
pBAD33-his yscN Expresses his yscN from araBAD promoter This study
pGEX62-lcrV GST-LcrV fusion expression vector H. Dams-Kozlowska, unpublished
pGEX-yopN GST-YopN fusion expression vector This study
pTRC99-yopN Expresses yopN from tac promoter This study
pBAD-lcrV Expresses lcrV from araBAD promoter D. Harmon, unpublished
pDS132-yscF L54V Suicide vector for introducing L54V mutation This study