Journal:

Article Title: Modification of Type IV Pilus-Associated Epithelial Cell Adherence and Multicellular Behavior by the PilU Protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

doi: 10.1128/IAI.70.7.3891-3903.2002

Figure Lengend Snippet: Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study

Article Snippet: All E. coli strains and their recombinants were maintained in Luria-Bertani medium supplemented with the appropriate antibiotics. table ft1 table-wrap mode="anchored" t5 TABLE 1. caption a7 Strain or plasmid Relevant characteristic(s) Reference or source N. gonorrhoeae strains N400 Derived from VD300, a contains the IPTG-inducible recA6 allele b 11 GF2 (PilF − ) pilF ::m-Tn 3erm 11 GT3 pilT ::m-Tn 3erm 40 GT7 pilT ::m-Tn 3erm 40 GT17 pilT ::m-Tn 3cm at position 73 c This study GT26 pilT ::m-Tn 3erm 40 GT50 pilT ::m-Tn 3erm at position 1105 c This study GT101 pilT dud1 40 GT102 pilT Δ QSL 40 GT103 pilT ::m-Tn 3erm 40 GT104 pilT ind 40 GT105 pilT fs164 40 GTU2 pilT ::m-Tn 3cm pilU ::mTn 3erm This study GTXE1 pilT :: xylE This study GUXE2 pilU :: xylE This study GU2 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 1591 c This study GU4 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 1714 c This study GU5 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 2102 c This study GU21 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 1314 c This study GU33 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 2541 c This study GU127 pilU ::m-Tn 3erm at position 1192 c This study E. coli strains BL21(DE3) F − ompT r B − m B − with prophage λ carring the T7 RNA polymerase gene 32 HB101 F − mcrB mrr hsdS20 (r B − m B − ) recA13 supE44 ara14 galK2 lacY1 proA2 rpsL20 (Sm r ) xyl5 λ − leu mtl1 GIBCO BRL Plasmids pBluescript II SK Cloning vector, Amp r 32 p6/16/11 1.1-kb Sal I fragment in pBluescript II SK This study p11/2/13 3.3-kb EagI/Xba I fragment in pBluescript II SK This study pHSS6 Vector for shuttle mutagenesis, Kan r 27 p1-49 3.3-kb Eag I/ Xba I fragment in pHSS6 This study pT7-5 T7 RNA polymerase promoter λ10, Amp r 32 pT7U pilU in pT7-5 This work pT7U (Δ Sal I) Sal I deletion subclone of pT7U This work Open in a separate window a VD300 is an MS11 derivative ( 15 ). b All remaining Gc strains are derived from N400. c Nucleotide positions correspond to those in GenBank no. {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"S72391","term_id":"632717","term_text":"S72391"}} S72391 .

Techniques: Plasmid Preparation, Derivative Assay, Clone Assay, Mutagenesis