Strain or plasmid | Characteristic | Reference or source |
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S. flexneri | Â | Â |
51579 | Serotype 6, carrying 3/4-O-acetylation on RhaIII, used for oacC gene cloning and inactivation analysis, Aps, Kms | [19] |
G1671, G1038 | Serotype 6, carrying 3/4-O-acetylation on RhaIII. | [18] |
51579ΔoacC | Strain 51579 with the oacC gene replaced by the kanamycin resistance gene (kan) from pSR551, Kmr, Aps | this study |
51579ΔoacC _pSQZ4 | 51579ΔoacC transformed by plasmid pSQZ4 | this study |
51579ΔoacC _pSQZ5 | 51579ΔoacC transformed by plasmid pSQZ5 | this study |
Sf301ΔoacB | Strain Sf301 with the oacB gene inactive, Kmr, Aps | [16] |
Sf301ΔoacB_ pSQZ4 | Sf301ΔoacB transformed by plasmid pSQZ4 | [16] |
Sf301ΔoacB_ pSQZ5 | Sf301ΔoacB transformed by plasmid pSQZ5 | this study |
E. coli | Â | Â |
DH5α | E. coli strain used for plasmid propagation and gene cloning | TaKaRa |
Plasmid | Â | Â |
pMD20T | T-A vector, Apr | TaKaRa |
pSR551 | Kmr, used for kan gene cloning | [24] |
pKOBEG | A thermosensitive replicon that carries the λ phage redγβα operon expressed under the control of the arabinose-inducible pBAD promoter | [25] |
pSQZ4 | pMD20T carrying the whole sequence of the oacB gene from strain Sf301, Apr | [16] |
pSQZ5 | pMD20T carrying the whole sequence of the oacC gene from strain 51579, Apr | This study |