TABLE 1.
Plasmid or strain | Description | Antibiotic resistancea | Source or reference |
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Plasmids | |||
pKSV7 | Temp-sensitive shuttle vector | Cb, Cm | 18 |
pPL2 | Site-specific integration vector | Cm | 43 |
pIMC3ery, pIMC3tet, pIMC3kan | Site-specific integration vectors with IPTG-induced expression of Ery, Tet, Kan | Cm, Ery, Tet, Kan | 44 |
pAD1-cGFP | Phyper-driven expression of GFP (constitutive) in pPL2 derivative | Cm | 45 |
pTM2 | InlAm subcloned into PstI/BamHI-digested pKSV7 | Cb, Cm | This study |
pGJ-cGFP | Phelp from pIMC3 subcloned into SacI/EagI-digested pAD1-cGFP | Cm | This study |
pAF1a | 0.98-kb fragment upstream of lplA1 (−988 to −1) in pKSV7 | Cb, Cm | This study |
pAF1-1 | 1.042-kb fragment from bp 954 of lplA1 to bp +1001 downstream adjacent to 0.98-kb fragment upstream of lplA1 in pAF1a | Cb, Cm | This study |
pTML1 | lplA1 plus 988 bp of upstream DNA from L. monocytogenes InlAm in SalI/PstI-digested pIMC3ery | Cm, Ery | This study |
Bacterial strains | |||
E. coli | |||
DH5α | F− endA1 hsdR17(rK− mK−) supE44 thi-1 λ− recA1 gyrA96 relA1 ϕ80dlacZΔM15 | None | M. N. Starnbach |
SURE | mcrA mcrCB mcrF mrr hsdR endA recB recJ F′ lacIqZΔM15 | Kan, Tet, Cm40 | Agilent Technologies |
L. monocytogenes | |||
EGDe | Wild-type L. monocytogenes | None | C. G. Gahan |
ΔinlA | inlA deletion mutant derived from strain EGDe | None | C. G. Gahan |
InlAm | Mouse-adapted L. monocytogenes; InlA S192N, Y369S | None | W.-D. Schubert |
SD1902 | InlAm::pIMC3ery | Cm, Ery | This study |
SD2000 | ΔinlA::pTM2 (InlAm) | None | This study |
SD2001 | SD2000::pIMC3kan | Cm, Kan | This study |
SD2002 | SD2000::pIMC3ery | Cm, Ery | This study |
SD2300 | SD2000 ΔlplA1 | None | This study |
SD2301 | SD2300::pIMC3kan | Cm, Kan | This study |
SD2302 | SD2300::pTML1 (+lplA1) | Cm, Ery | This study |
SD2710 | SD2000::pGJ-cGFP | Cm | This study |
SD2800 | ΔinlA::pIMC3tet | Cm, Tet | This study |
SD2900 | EGDe::pIMC3ery | Cm, Ery | This study |
Cb, carbenicillin; Cm, chloramphenicol; Ery, erythromycin; Kan, kanamycin; Tet, tetracycline.