Table 2.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used.

Strain or plasmid	Relevant characteristics	Reference or source
P. mirabilis
HI4320	Wild type	H.L.T. Mobley a
S1959	Wild type, serovar O3	Z. Sydorckzyk
R110	Rough mutant of strain S 1959	Z. Sydorckzyk b
51/57	Serovar O28	Z. Sydorckzyk b
50/57	Serovar O27	Z. Sydorckzyk b
14/57	Serovar O6	Z. Sydorckzyk b
TG83	Serovar O57	Z. Sydorckzyk b
K. pneumoniae
52145ΔwabH	Non-polar wabH mutant	[9]
52145ΔwabG	Non-polar wabG mutant	[16]
E. coli
DH5α	F− endA hsdR17 (rk− mk−) supE44 thi-1 recA1 gyr-A96 φ80lacZ	[19]
Plasmid
pGEMT easy	PCR generated DNA fragment cloning vector AmpR	Promega c
pGEMT-eptC	pGEMT with eptC from strain HI4320, ApR	This study
pBAD18-Cm	Arabinose-inducible expression vector, CmR	[20]
pBAD18-Cm-eptC	Arabinose-inducible eptC, CmR	This study

Locations:

^aUniversity of Michigan, MI, USA;

^bNational Microbiology Institute, Warsaw, Poland;

^cBarcelona, Spain.