TABLE 3.

Strains and plasmids used in this study

Strain or plasmid	Description	Reference or source
Strains
E. faecalis
OG1RF	Human oral cavity isolate	40, 41
OG1RF ΔPIP	PIP deletion strain	15
OG1RF-C	OG1RF ΔPIP ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF ΔbgsB	OG1RF bgsB deletion mutant	This work
OG1RF ΔepaR	OG1RF epaR deletion mutant	This work
OG1RF ΔbgsB ΔepaR	OG1RF bgsB and epaR double-deletion mutant	This work
OG1RF ΔepaR_Ew	OG1RF ΔepaR with wild-type epaR complementation in cis	This work
OG1RF ΔepaR_Ec	OG1RF ΔepaR complemented with OG1RF-C epaR allele in cis	This work
OG1RF ΔbgsB_Bw	OG1RF ΔbgsB with wild-type bgsB complementation in cis	This work
OG1RF ΔbgsB_Bc	OG1RF ΔbgsB complemented with OG1RF-C bgsB allele in cis	This work
OG1RF_R2	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R3	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R4	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R5	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R6	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R7	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R8	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R9	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
OG1RF_R10	OG1RF ϕNPV1-resistant strain	This work
E. coli
EC1000	Cloning host, provides repA in trans	42
Plasmids
pLT06	Cloning vector, temp-sensitive repA, Cmra	36
pLT06_ΔbgsB	bgsB deletion construct	This work
pLT06_ΔepaR	epaR deletion construct	This work
pLT06_Ew	epaR wild-type allele complementation construct	This work
pLT06_Ec	epaR OG1RF-C allele complementation construct	This work
pLT06_Bw	bgsB wild-type allele complementation construct	This work
pLT06_Bc	bgsB OG1RF-C allele complementation construct	This work

^aCm^r, chloramphenicol resistant.