Table 1.

Plasmids and bacterial strains used in this study.

Name	Promoter and fluorescent gene	Antibiotic resistance	Reference
pGRG36	Not applicable	Ampicillin	McKenzie and Craig (2006)
pUC18T-mini-Tn7T-Zeo-ecfp	tac promoter, eCFP	Ampicillin, Zeocin	Choi and Schweizer (2006)
pUC18T-mini-Tn7T-Zeo-eyfp	tac promoter, eYFP	Ampicillin, Zeocin	Choi and Schweizer (2006)
pMP7607	tac promoter, mCherry	Kanamycin	Lagendijk et al. (2010)
pFru97	nptII promoter, dsRed	Kanamycin	Tecon and Leveau (2012)
pRJaph_eBFP2	nptII promoter, eBFP2	Tetracycline	Ledermann et al. (2015)
pRJaph_mtq2	nptII promoter, mTurquoise2	Tetracycline	Ledermann et al. (2015)
pRJaph_mChe	nptII promoter, mCherry	Tetracycline	Ledermann et al. (2015)
pCPP39	Not applicable	Tetracycline	Leveau and Lindow (2001b)
pMRE100	tac promoter, mCherry	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE101	tac promoter, eCFP	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE102	tac promoter, eYFP	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE103	nptII promoter, mCherry	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE104	nptII promoter, eCFP	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE105	nptII promoter, eYFP	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE106	nptII promoter, eBFP2	Ampicillin	This study
pMRE107	nptII promoter, mTurquoise2	Ampicillin	This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre100	Chromosomally inserted, inducible mCherry gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre101	Chromosomally inserted, inducible eCFP gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre102	Chromosomally inserted, inducible eYFP gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre103	Chromosomally inserted, constitutive mCherry gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre104	Chromosomally inserted, constitutive eCFP gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre105	Chromosomally inserted, constitutive eYFP gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre106	Chromosomally inserted, constitutive eBFP2 gene		This study
E. coli O157:H7::mre107	Chromosomally inserted, constitutive mTurquoise2 gene		This study