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Table 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

Strains	Source	Strain characteristics	Source or references
Enterococcus sp.
BGGO9-27	Semi-fat 30 days artisanal old cheese	Agg⁺	Terzic-Vidojevic et al., 2014
BGGO9-28		Agg⁺
BGGO9-30		Agg⁺
BGGO9-32		Agg⁺
BGGO9-33		Agg⁺
BGGO9-56		Agg⁺
BGGO10-37		Agg⁺
BGGO10-38		Agg⁺
BGGO11-27	Semi-fat 10 days artisanal old cheese	Agg⁺	Golić et al., 2013
BGGO11-29		Agg⁺
BGGO11-33		Agg⁺
BGGO11-41		Agg⁺
BGDU4-1	Semi-had, semi-fat, 15 days old cheese	Agg⁺	Laboratory collection
BGDB23-11	Semi-had, full-fat, 12 days old cheese	Agg⁺	Laboratory collection
BGZLS10-27	Semi-fat 10 days artisanal old cheese	Agg⁻	Valenzuela et al., 2009
BGZLS10-27/pAggES10	Derivative of BGZLS10-27 carrying pAggES10	Agg⁺, Em^r	This study
BGZLS10-27/pAggEPX48	Derivative of BGZLS10-27 carrying pAggEPX48	Agg⁺, Em^r	This study
Lactoccoccus lactis subsp. lactis
BGKP1		Agg⁺	Kojic et al., 2011
Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris
MG7284	Derivative of MG1363	Fus^r, Spc^r, Agg⁻	Gasson, 1983
MG7284/pAggES10	Derivative of MG7284 carrying pAggES10	Agg⁺, Em^r	This study
MG7284/pAggEPX48	Derivative of MG7284 carrying pAggEPX48	Agg⁺, Em^r	This study
Escherichia coli
DH5α		supE44 ΔlacU169 (ø80 lacZΔM15) hsdR17 recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 relA1	Hanahan, 1983
PLASMIDS AND CONSTRUCTS
pAZIL	Shuttle cloning vector	Em^r	Kojic et al., 2011
pAggES10	Derivative of pAZIL vector	Carrying StuI fragment of 8,944 bp from BGGO9-28	This study
pAggEPX48	Derivative of pAZIL vector	Carrying PvuI-XbaI fragment of 7,115 bp subcloned from pAggES10	This study

Agg⁺, aggregation-positive; Agg⁻, aggregation-negative; Em^r, resistance to erythromycin; Fus^r, resistance to fusaric acid; Spc^r, resistance to spectinomycin.