TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains

Strain	Characteristics	Reference or source
E. coli
TOP10	High-transformation-efficiency cells	Invitrogen
TOP10/pCR-hly	TOP10 transformed with pCR-hly	This work
TOP10/pCR-phly-hly	TOP10 transformed with pCR-phly-hly	This work
TOP10/pAT28-hly	TOP10 transformed with pAT28-hly	This work
TOP10/pTCV-hly	TOP10 transformed with pTCV-hly	This work
TOP10/pAT28-phly-hly	TOP10 transformed with pAT28-phly-hly	This work
TOP10/pTCV-phly-hly	TOP10 transformed with pTCV-phly-hly	This work
L. monocytogenes
EGDwt	Wild-type strain, serovar 1/2a	10
EGDΔhly	EGD derivative (serovar 1/2a) with a deletion of 1,080 bp in the hly gene	11
EGDΔhly/pAT28-hly	EGDΔhly transformed with pAT28-hly	This work
EGDΔhly/pAT28-phly-hly	EGDΔhly transformed with pAT28-phly-hly	This work
EGDΔhly/pTCV-hly	EGDΔhly transformed with pTCV-hly	This work
EGDΔhly/pTCV-phly-hly	EGDΔhly transformed with pTCV-phly-hly	This work