Fig. 1. Engineering of an E. lenta endogenous plasmid enables efficient transformation of E. lenta and Gordonibacter.
a An E. lenta endogenous plasmid pEL11863 was chosen for further engineering. b Construction of shuttle plasmids pXD69m1 and pXD69m2, and the broad-host-range plasmid pXD68Kan2. Shuttle plasmids pXD69m1 and pXD69m2 were constructed by assembly of E. lenta pEL11863 replicon (dark green), E. coli ColE1 origin and bla ampicillin-resistance gene (blue), and E. lenta antibiotic resistance gene tetW (orange) or aphA (light green). pXD68Kan2 was constructed from RSF1010-based broad host-range plasmid pAM5409, with antibiotic resistance gene replaced by aphA, and the RSF1010 replicon (dark green) and yfp (grey) originally on pAM5409 were retained. c Plasmids pXD69m1, pXD69m2 and pXD68Kan2 can be transformed into E. lenta DSM 2243 using electroporation. d Plasmid-specific PCR confirmed plasmid presence within individual colonies. Plasmids (P) and WT gDNA were used as control templates. Amplified regions are indicated in Supplementary Fig. 1a. M: DNA ladder. e Plasmid pXD69m2 can be transformed into Gordonibacter sp. 28C using electroporation. f The transformation efficiency of plasmids pXD69m1, pXD69m2 and pXD68Kan2 into different E. lenta and Gordonibacter strains. ND: colonies not detected. Data in panel f are represented as mean ± SD with n = 3 biological replicates. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.