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. 2019 Oct 29;4(5):e00529-19. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00529-19

TABLE 3.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study

Strain or
plasmid		 Description Source or
reference
Strains
    UA159 S. mutans type strain ATCC 700610
    UA159ΔSMU_308 Scarless knockout of sorbitol-6-phosphate
2-dehydrogenase (SMU_308);
deleted bases 294120–297024		 This study
    UA159ΔgalKT Scarless knockout of galactokinase
(galK, SMU_886) and galactose-1-phosphate
uridylyltransferase (galT, SMU_887);
deleted bases 838314–842938		 This study
Plasmids
    pDL278 E. coli/streptococcal shuttle
vector; Specr 		67
    pSMU308 pDL278::SMU_308; SMU_308 includes
the native promoter		 This study
    pGalKT pDL278::galKT; galKT includes
the native promoter		 This study