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. 2015 Jan 29;7(2):299–321. doi: 10.3390/toxins7020299

Table 2.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study. Double colon (::) indicates fusion of a promoter and gene.

Strains Genotype Source
BW25113 rrnB3 ΔlacZ4787 hsdR514 Δ(araBAD)567 Δ(rhaBAD)568 rph-1 [59]
BW25113 ∆ortT BW25113 ΔortT Ω KmR [59]
BW25113 ∆ghoT ∆kan BW25113 ΔghoT [42]
BW25113 ∆ortT ∆kan BW25113 ΔortT This study
BW25113 ∆mqsRmqsA ∆kan BW25113 ∆mqsRmqsA [43]
Plasmids Genotype Source
pCA24N CmR; lacIq [60]
pCA24N-ghoT CmR; lacIq, PT5-lac::ghoT+ [60]
pCA24N-ortT CmR; lacIq, PT5-lac::ortT+ [60]
pCA24N-relA CmR; lacIq, PT5-lac::relA+ [60]
pCA24N-ortTACG CmR; lacIq, PT5-lac::ortT+ with start codon ATG replaced with ACG This study
pCA24N-ortTF38R CmR; lacIq, PT5-lac::ortT+ with TT changed to CG at nucleotide position 160-161 relative to the 6xHis-GhoT start codon This study
pCA24N-ghoTF38R CmR; lacIq, pCA24N PT5-lac::ghoT+ with TT changed to CG at nucleotide position 160-161 relative to the 6xHis-GhoT start codon [42]
pCA24N-ortT-ydcY CmR; lacIq, pCA24N PT5-lac::ortT+-ydcY+ This study
pCA24N-ortT-ghoS CmR; lacIq, pCA24N PT5-lac::ortT+-ghoS+ This study
pCA24N-ortT-B CmR; lacIq, pCA24N PT5-lac::ortT+ with the BamHI site in the N-terminus linker deleted. This study
pCP20 ApR; CmR, FLP+, λ cI857+, λ pRRepts [61]
pBS(Kan) KmR; cloning vector [62]
pBS(Kan)-mqsR KmR; pBS(Kan) Plac::mqsR+ [43]
pBS(Kan)-mqsR-mqsA KmR; pBS(Kan) Plac::mqsR+-mqsA+ [43]

CmR and KmR are chloramphenicol and kanamycin resistance, respectively.