Table 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study

Strain name	Strain	Reference
DH5α (NEB 5-alpha)	K-12	New England Biolabs
DH10ß (NEB 10-beta)	K-12	New England Biolabs
DH1	K-12	Meselson & Yuan (1968)
MG1655	K-12	F. R. Blattner, et al. Science 277, 1453–1462 (1997)
W3110	K-12	K. Hayashi, et al. Mol. Syst. Biol. 2 (2006)
DH1	K-12	M. Meselson & R. Yuan. Nature 217, 1110–1114 (1968)
BW25113	K-12	Datsenko & Wanner (2000)
MDS42 Meta	K-12	Scarab Genomics
BL21(DE3)	B	New England Biolabs
Mach1	W	ThermoFisher