Table 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

Strains/plasmids	Relevant characteristic	Sources
Strains
E. coli
DH5α	f80dlacZΔM15, Δ(lacZYA‐argF)U169, deoR, recA1, endA1, hsdR17(rk−, mk+), phoA, supE44, l−, thi‐1, gyrA96, relA1	Transgen
BL21(DE3)	ompT gal dcm lon hsdSB(rB − mB−) l (DE3 [lacI lacUV5‐T7 gene 1 ind1 sam7 nin5])	Transgen
C. thermocellum
DSM1313	Wild type strain	DSMZ
DSM1313::pHK‐LCC	Derived from DSM1313, with the plasmid pHK‐LCC	This work
Plasmids
pHK	pNW33N derivative, E. coli‐C. thermocellum shuttle vector, CmR/TmR	Zhang et al. (2017)
pHK‐LCC	pHK derivative for expression of LCC in DSM1313	This work