Table 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study.

Strain	Characteristics or genotype	Source
C. glutamicum
CR099	C. glutamicum ATCC 13032, ΔCGP1, ΔCGP2, ΔCGP3, ΔISCg1, ΔISCg2	Baumgart et al., 2013; Unthan et al., 2015
CR099 Δrel	C. glutamicum CR099 Δrel	Ruwe et al., 2017
CR099 ΔrelS	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelS	Ruwe et al., 2017
CR099 ΔrelH	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelH	This study
CR099 ΔrelΔrelS	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelΔrelS	Ruwe et al., 2017
CR099 ΔrelΔrelH	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelΔrelH	This study
CR099 ΔrelSΔrelH	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelSΔrelH	This study
CR099 ΔrelΔrelSΔrelH	C. glutamicum CR099 ΔrelΔrelSΔrelH	This study
E. coli
ER2566	E. coli expression strain with a chromosomal copy of the T7 RNA polymerase gene under the control of the lac promoter	New England Biolabs
MG1655	Wild-type E. coli MG1655, derived from E. coli K12	Blattner et al., 1997
MG1655 ΔrelA	MG1655 ΔrelA	Ruwe et al., 2017