Table 2.

Bacterial strains used in this work for isolation of LPS (c-cured of virulence plasmid pYV⁻; R-O-antigen missing).

Strain	Description	LPS chemotype	References
Yersinia enterocolitica 6471/76-c (YeO3-c)	Virulence plasmid cured derivative of 6471/76	S (LA-IC-OPS) and Ra (LA-IC-OC)	[13]
Yersinia enterocolitica YeO3-c-R1	Spontaneous rough derivative of strain 6471/76-c; pYV−	Ra (LA-IC-OC)	[2]
Yersinia enterocolitica YeO3-c-Rfb- R7	Tn5-phoA insertion mutant in OC gene cluster, pYV−, KmR	Rc (LA-IC)	[14, 15]
Yersinia enterocolitica YeO3-c-OCR-ECA	YeO3-c-OCR (wzzE-wzyE) ECA gene cluster deleted. pYV−, KmR.	Rc (LA-IC)	[15]
Yersinia enterocolitica YeO3-c-R1-M181	YeO3-c-R1 galU::cat-Mu, clmR; pYV−	Rd1 (LA-4/8IC)	[4]
Yersinia enterocolitica YeO3-c-R1-M205	YeO3-c-R1 hldE::cat-Mu, clmR; pYV−	Re (LA-2/8IC)	[4]