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Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2018 Mar 23;108(5):505–518. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13932

Table 2.

Bacterial strains used in this work.

Strain	Description^a	Source or reference
E. coli
MC4100	E. coli strain K-12 with araD and lacZ deletion	(Pogliano and Beckwith, 1994)
MC4100 hns	MC4100 hns::Kn^r The first 37 amino acids of H-NS are expressed, resulting in a dominant-negative effect on other H-NS-like proteins in the cell.	(Yamada et al., 1991)
S. flexneri
2457T	S. flexneri serotype 2a	(Formal et al., 1958)
AWY3	2457T virB::Tn5; Kn^r	(Wing et al., 2004)

Kn^r, kanamycin resistance.