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. 2011 Jul;77(13):4293–4302. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00195-11

Table 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study

Bacterial strain or plasmid Description Reference or source
Edwardsiella ictaluri
    93-146 Wild-type E. ictaluri isolated from a moribund channel catfish from a natural outbreak at a commercial facility in 1993 LSU aquatic animal diagnostic laboratory
    93-146 ΔesrA::km 93-146 with nucleotides 112-2610 of esrA deleted in frame and a Tn5 kanamycin resistance cassette inserted; Kmr This work
    93-146 ΔesrB::km 93-146 with nucleotides 58-564 of esrB deleted in frame and a Tn5 kanamycin resistance cassette inserted; Kmr This work
    93-146 ΔesrC 93-146 with nucleotides 301-633 of esrC deleted in frame This work
    93-146 ΔesrA::km/pesrA 93-146 ΔesrA::km carrying pesrA; Kmr Apr This work
    93-146 ΔesrB::km/pesrB 93-146 ΔesrB::km carrying pesrB; Kmr Apr This work
    93-146 ΔesrC/pesrC 93-146 ΔesrC carrying pesrC; Apr This work
    WT/pesrA 93-146 carrying pesrA; Apr This work
    WT/pesrB 93-146 carrying pesrB; Apr This work
    WT/pesrC 93-146 carrying pesrC; Apr This work
    EseB-Flag 93-146 carrying pBBR1-EseB::Flag; Apr This work
    EseG-Flag 93-146 carrying pBBR1-EseG::Flag; Apr This work
    EseH-Flag 93-146 carrying pBBR1-EseH::Flag; Apr This work
    EseI-Flag 93-146 carrying pBBR1-EseI::Flag; Apr This work
    EsrC-Flag 93-146 carrying pBBR1-EsrC::Flag; Apr This work
Escherichia coli
    XL1 Blue MRF′ (mcrA)183 (mcrCB-hsdSMR-mrr)173endA1 supE44 thi-1 recA1 gyrA96 relA1 lac [F′ proAB lacIqZM15 Tn5(Km)] Stratagene, La Jolla, CA
    CC118λ pir Δ(ara-leu) araD ΔlacX74 galE galK phoA20 thi-1 rpsE rpoB argE(Am) recA1 λpir lysogen 25
    SM10λ pir thi1 thr1 leuB supE44 tonA21 lacY1 recA-::RP4-2-Tc::Mu Kmr λ::pir 46
Plasmids
    pBluescript SK− Cloning vector; Apr Stratagene, La Jolla, CA
    pGP704 R6K ori mob; Apr; suicide vector used for allelic exchange 35
    pRE107 R6K ori mobsacB1; Apr; suicide vector used for allelic exchange 16
    pGP::ΔesrA::km pGP704 carrying ΔesrA::km This work
    pGP::ΔesrB::km pGP704 carrying ΔesrB::km This work
    pRE::ΔesrC pRE107 carrying ΔesrC This work
    pBBR1-MCS4 Broad-host-range expression vector; Apr 27
    pesrA pBBR1-MCS4 carrying esrA This work
    pesrB pBBR1-MCS4 carrying esrB This work
    pesrC pBBR1-MCS4 carrying esrC This work
    pMRFlag pBluescript SK-km::Flag with an SphI site engineered between km and the Flag epitope This work
    pBBR1-EseB::Flag pBBR1-MCS4 carrying the escC/eseB ORFs fused to the Flag epitope This work
    pBBR1-EseG::Flag pBBR1-MCS4 carrying the escB/eseG operon fused to the Flag epitope This work
    pBBR1-EseH::Flag pBBR1-MCS4 carrying the eseH gene fused to the Flag epitope This work
    pBBR1-EseI::Flag pBBR1-MCS4 carrying the escD/eseI operon fused to the Flag epitope This work
    pBBR1-EsrC::Flag pBBR1-MCS4 carrying the esrC gene fused to the Flag epitope This work