TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

Strain	Description	Source
E. coli Top 10	General cloning host	Stratagene, La Jolla, CA
C. glutamicum	Wild-type, ATCC 13032	ATCC
SSL03	C. glutamicum strain harboring pEKEx-xylAxc-xylBec	This study
SSL09	SSL03 harboring pVWE1araBAD	This study
Plasmid
pEKEx-xylAxc-xylBec	pEKEx3 based recombinant plasmid harboring xylA, and xylB	Meiswinkel et al. (2013)
pVWE1araBAD	pVWEx1 based recombinant plasmid harboring araB, araA and araD	Schneider et al. (2010)