Table 1.

List of bacterial strains used in this study.

Strain	Relevant features	Reference or source
M. bovis BCG Pasteur	Pasteur strain of spontaneously attenuated variant of M. bovis	Brosch et al., 2007
M. bovis BCG Pasteur metM::himar1	Transposon insertion mutant with disruption in BCG_3282c (metM)	This work
M. bovis BCG Pasteur metM::himar1/ pUMN002hyg::metM	Complemented BCG_3282c (metM) transposon insertion mutant	This work
M. bovis BCG Pasteur bioB::himar1	Transposon insertion mutant with disruption in bioB	This work
M. tuberculosis H37Ra	Spontaneously attenuated variant of M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv	Steenken et al., 1934
M. tuberculosis H37Ra ΔpabB	H37Ra strain with the pabB coding sequence replaced by a hygromycin resistance cassette	Thiede et al., 2016
M. smegmatis mc2155	Used for propagation of himar1 mycobacteriophage	Snapper et al., 1990
E. coli DH5αλpir	Utilized to replicate self-ligated himar1 plasmids for determination of transposon insertion site	Taylor et al., 1993