Table 1

Bacterial strains, plasmids, and oligonucleotide primers.

Strain, plasmid, or primer
Relevant characteristic(s) or sequence (5' to 3')
Source, reference or target

Strains


L. rhamnosus ATCC 9595
Low EPS-producing (116 mg/L)
ATCC1
E. coli XL1-Blue
Cloning host (recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 hsdR17 supE44 relA1 lac [F' proAB lacIqZΔM15 Tn10])
Stratagene1
E. coli NM522
Cloning host (supE thi-1 Δ(lac-proAB) Δ(mcrB-hsdSM)5 (rK- mK-) [F' proAB lacIqZΔM15])
Stratagene1



Plasmids


     pQE30
His-tag fusion protein expression vector; Cmr, Amr
Qiagen1
     pGL387
768-pb digested PCR fragment (wzb) cloned into the SacI-KpnI site of pQE30
This study



Primers2


     BF1SacI
gagctcATTGATGTGCATTGCCATATGTTACCGGGA
PCR of wzb
     BRSKpn
ggtaccTTAATACCGCGACAACAAACGCTTTTCAACC
PCR of wzb
     BD4NF
ATTAATGTGCATTGCCATATGTTACCGGGA
wzb-D3N forward
     BD4NR
TCCCGGTAACATATGGCAATGCACATTAAT
wzb-D3N reverse
     BFHI
ATTGATGTGGCTTGCGCTATGTTACCGGGA
wzb-H5A-H7A forward
     BRHI
TCCCGGTAACATAGCGCAAGCCACATCAAT
wzb-H5A-H7A reverse
     BC6SF
ATTGATGTGCATAGCCATATGTTACCGGGA
wzb-C6S forward
     BC6SR
TCCCGGTAACATATGGCTATGCACATCAAT
wzb-C6S reverse
     BH42AF
TGATGACGCCGGCCGCTATGAATGGCCG
wzb-H42-H43A forward
     BH42AR
CGGCCATTCATAGCGGCCGGCGTCATCA
wzb-H42-H43A reverse
     BD64NF
GTTTCAAAACGAGTTAGACCGCCGCAATATTCCA
wzb-D64N forward
     BD64NR
TGGAATATTGCGGCGGTCTAACTCGTTTTGAAAC
wzb-D64N reverse
     BR68AF
GTTTCAAGACGAGTTAGACGCCCGCAATATTCCA
wzb-R68A forward
     BR68AR
TGGAATATTGCGGGCGTCTAACTCGTCTTGAAAC
wzb-R68A reverse
     BR69AF
GTTTCAAGACGAGTTAGACCGCGCCAATATTCCA
wzb-R69A forward
     BR69AR
TGGAATATTGGCGCGGTCTAACTCGTCTTGAAAC
wzb-R69A reverse
     BC78SF
TTTCCCGAGTCAGGAAGTGCGGATTAATGGGC
wzb-C78S forward
     BC78SR
GCCCATTAATCCGCACTTCCTGACTCGGGAAA
wzb-C78S reverse
     BFH197A
CCTCTGATGCCGCTGCCTTACCGGGTCGCAGTTA
wzb-H197-H198A forward
     BRH197A
TAACTGCGACCCGGTAAGGCAGCGGCATCAGAGG
wzb-H197-H198A reverse

1 ATCC (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA); Qiagen S.A. (Courtaboeuf, France); Stratagene (LaJolla, CA, USA).

2 Restriction sites in primers are indicated in lower case letters.

LaPointe et al. BMC Biochemistry 2008 9:10   doi:10.1186/1471-2091-9-10