Bacterial strains or plasmids | Description | Source |
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A. salmonicida | ||
 LFI1238 | Wild-type, isolated from Atlantic cod | [18] |
 ΔlitR | LFI1238 containing an in-frame deletion in litR | [22] |
 ΔrpoQ | LFI1238 containing an in-frame deletion in rpoQ | This study |
 ΔrpoQc | ΔrpoQ strain complemented with wild-type copy of the rpoQ gene, Cmr | This study |
 ΔlitR-rpoQ− | ΔlitR stain with an insertional disruption in rpoQ, Cmr | This study |
 LFI1238-pVSV102 | LFI1238 carrying pVSV102, Knr | This study |
 ΔlitR-pVSV102 | ΔlitR carrying pVSV102, Knr | This study |
 ΔrpoQ-pVSV102 | ΔrpoQ carrying pVSV102, Knr | This study |
 LFI1238-pTM214 | LFI1238 carrying pTM214, Cmr | This study |
 LFI1238-Ptrc-rpoQ | LFI1238 carrying pTM214-rpoQ, Cmr | This study |
 ΔlitR-pTM214 | ΔlitR carrying pTM214, Cmr | This study |
 ΔlitR-Ptrc-rpoQ | ΔlitR carrying pTM214-rpoQ, Cmr | This study |
E. coli | ||
 S17λpir | Donor strain for conjugation | [65] |
 JM109 | Strain for subcloning pGEM-T constructs | [66] |
 DH5α | Strain for cloning | Thermo Fisher |
 C118λpir | Helper strain containing pEVS104 | [32] |
 DH5αλpir | Donor strain for conjugation harboring pVSV102 | [32] |
 PIR2 | Donor strain for conjugation harboring pTM214 | [33] |
Plasmids | ||
 pDM4 | Suicide vector with an R6K origin, sacBR and Cmr | [35] |
 pNQ705 | Suicide vector with an R6K origin, Cmr | [35] |
 pDM4-ΔrpoQ | pDM4 containing a fragment of rpoQ harboring an internal deletion | This study |
 pNQ705-rpoQc | pNQ705 containing a full length rpoQ and flanking sequences | This study |
 pNQ705-rpoQ− | pNQ705 containing an internal 304 bp fragment of rpoQ | This study |
 pTM214 | pVSV105, Ptrc-mCherry, Cmr | [33] |
 pVSV102 | pES213, constitutive GFP, Knr | [67] |
 pEVS104 | Helper plasmid, R6K origin, RP4, oriT, trb, tra and Knr | [32] |
 pTM214-rpoQ | pVSV105, Ptrc-rpoQ (a full length rpoQ copy), Cmr | This study |
 pGEM-T | TA cloning vector, white/blue screening, Ampr | Promega |