Table 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study.

Bacterial strain	Characteristics	Reference
B. cenocepacia H111	Clinical isolate from a cystic fibrosis patient	Gotschlich et al., 2001; Carlier et al., 2014
B. cenocepacia H111 ΔrpfR	rpfR gene deletion mutant	Deng et al., 2012
B. cenocepacia H111 cdpA	Insertional mutant with cdpA interrupted by pEX18Gm, Gmr	This study
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal0430	bcal0430 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal1635	bcal1635 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal1975	bcal1975 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal2852	bcal2852 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam0748	bcam0748 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam1161	bcam1161 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam1554	bcam1554 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam1670	bcam1670 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam2256	bcam2256 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam2822	bcam2822 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam2836	bcam2836 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcas0398	bcas0398 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal0621	bcal0621 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal2449	bcal2449 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam1160	bcam1160 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal0652	bcal0652 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal1100	bcal1100 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal2749	bcal2749 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcal3188	bcal3188 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam0158	bcam0158 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcam2426	bcam2426 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcas0263	bcas0263 gene deletion mutant
B. cenocepacia H111 Δbcas0378	bcas0378 gene deletion mutant
E. coli DH5α	Used for standard DNA manipulations	Invitrogen
E. coli DB3.1	Host for Gateway-compatible gene replacement vectors	Invitrogen
E. coli S17-1-βpir	Host of the mini-Tn7-kan-gfp delivery vector	Simon et al., 1983