TABLE 1.
Escherichia coli strains and plasmids.
| Strain or plasmid | Relevant genotype or description | Source or references | |
| Strains | |||
| MG1655 | K-12, F– λ– ilvG– rfb-50 rph-1 | Blattner et al., 1997 | |
| AM604 | MC4100 ara + | Wu et al., 2006 | |
| AS19 | E. coli strain B, hyperpermeable strain | Sekiguchi and Iida, 1967 | |
| NR698 | imp4213 | Ruiz et al., 2005 | |
| XL1-Blue | recA1 endA1 gyrA96 (NalR) thi-1 hsdR17 supE44 relA1 lac [F’ proAB lacIqZΔM15 Tn10 (TetR)] | NEB | |
| BTH101 | F– cya-99 araD139 galE15 galK16 rpsL1 (StrR) hsdR2 mcrA1 mcrB1 | Karimova et al., 1998; Ouellette et al., 2017 | |
| M15/pREP4 | F– lac thi mtl/pREP4 | QIAGEN | |
| BL21(DE3) | F– ompT gal dcm lon hsdSB(rB– mB–) (λDE3 [lacI lacUV5-T7 gene 1 ind1 Sam7 nin5]) | Studier and Moffatt, 1986 | |
| Plasmids | ori | ||
| pSTM25 | aadA Plac::t25-TM | p15A | Ouellette et al., 2014 |
| pUTM18C | bla Plac::t18-TM | ColE1 | Ouellette et al., 2014 |
| pUTM18C-MalE | malE sequence (residues 27–396) cloned downstream T18-TM | ColE1 | This study |
| pSTM25-LptAm | lptA sequence (residues 28–159) cloned downstream T25-TM | p15A | This study |
| pUTM18C-LptAm | lptA sequence (residues 28–159) cloned downstream T18-TM | ColE1 | This study |
| pUTM18C-LptAmQ62L | lptA sequence (residues 28–159) bearing a Q-to-L mutation at position 62 cloned downstream T18-TM | ColE1 | This study |
| pSTM25-LptA | lptA sequence (residues 28–185) cloned downstream T25-TM | p15A | This study |
| pSTM25-LptAQ62L | lptA sequence (residues 28–185) bearing a Q-to-L mutation at position 62 cloned downstream T25-TM | p15A | This study |
| pUTM18C-LptA | lptA sequence (residues 28–185) cloned downstream T18-TM | ColE1 | This study |
| pUTM18C-LptAQ62L | lptA sequence (residues 28–185) bearing a Q-to-L mutation at position 62 cloned downstream T18-TM | ColE1 | This study |
| pST25-LptC | lptC full-length sequence cloned downstream T25 | p15A | This study |
| pUT18C-LptC | lptC full-length sequence cloned downstream T18 | ColE1 | This study |
| pQEsH-lptC | pQE30 (QIAGEN) derivative, expresses His6-LptC24–191; bla | Sperandeo et al., 2011 | |
| pET-LptAΔ160–185 –H | pT7-lptAΔ160–185 -His6; bla | Laguri et al., 2017 | |