Strains/Plasmids | Relevant Characteristics | Reference |
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Strains | ||
E. faecium | ||
TX16 (DO) | Sequenced endocarditis clinical isolate, Emr, Smr. ST-16a http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu | [35] |
TX1330RF | Fsr and Rfr derivative of TX1330, a faecal colonizing strain from a healthy human volunteer | [11] |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16) | Derivative of TX1330RF to which the hyl Efm -containing plasmid (pHylEfmTX16) was transferred by conjugation from TX16 (DO) (~250 kb) | [11] |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16Δ7,534) | Mutant with deletion of part or all of 6 genes of the hyl Efm region of TX1330RF(pHylEfmTX16) | This work |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16Δ4genes) | Non-polar deletion of 4 genes of the hyl Efm region of TX1330RF(pHylEfmTX16) | This work |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16Δ hyl ) | Non-polar deletion mutant of hyl Efm of TX1330RF(pHylEfmTX16) | This work |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16Δ hyl-down ) | Non-polar deletion of hyl Efm plus its downstream gene of TX1330RF(pHylEfmTX16) | This work |
TX1330RF (pHylEfmTX16Δ down ) | Non-polar deletion of the gene downstream of hyl Efm of TX1330RF(pHylEfmTX16) | This work |
E. faecalis | ||
CK111 | OG1Sp upp4::P23 repA4 | [25] |
Plasmids | ||
pHylEfmTX16 | Conjugative and transferable megaplasmid (ca. 250 kb) of TX16 (DO) containing hyl Efm | [11] |
pCJK47 | Conjugative donor plasmid for markerless mutagenesis; oriTpCF10 and pheS* pORI280 derivative; confers Emr | [25] |
pHOU1 | Derivative of pCJK47 in which the erm(C) gene was replaced by aph-2'-ID; confers Gmr | This work |
pHOU2 | Derivative of pCJK47 in which the erm(C) gene was replaced by aph-2'-ID and cat was incorporated in the cloning site for allelic replacements; confers Gmr. | This work |
pTEX5501ts | E. coli-enterococcal shuttle plasmid for mutagenesis using a temperature-sensitive replicon | [27] |
pAT392 | oriRpAMβ1, oriRpUC oriTRK2 spc lacZα P2 aac(6')-aph(2") | [30] |
pAT392::hyl Efm | Derivative of pAT392 containing hyl Efm (cloned with SacI and SmaI) under the control of the P2 promoter | This work |
pAT392::hyl Efm- down | Derivative of pAT392 containing both the hyl Efm plus downstream genes (cloned with SacI and SmaI) under the control of the P2 promoter | This work |