Table 1 Bacterial strains, plasmids, and influenza virus.

From: Deimmunization of flagellin for repeated administration as a vaccine adjuvant

 

Description

Source

Bacteria

  

Escherichia coli DH5α

F − recA1 restriction negative

Laboratory collection

E. coli ER2566

F− λ− fhuA2 [lon] ompT lacZ::T7 gene1 gal sulA11∆(mcrC-mrr)114::IS10 R(mcr-73::miniTn10-TetS)2 R(zgb-210::Tn10)(TetS) endA1 [dcm]

New England Biolabs, Inc.

E. coli BL 21 (DE3)

hsdS gal (λcIts857 ind1 Sam7 nin5 lacUV5-T7 gene1)

Laboratory collection

Plasmid

  

pCR2.1TOPO

Cloning vector; Apr; Kmr

Invitrogen

pTYB12

N-terminal fusion expression vector in which the N terminus of a target protein is a fused Intein-tag; Apr

New England Biolabs, Inc.

pET30a+

N-terminal fusion expression vector in which the N terminus of a target protein is a fused His-tag; Kmr

EMD Bioscience

pCMM250

1.5-kb EcoRI-PstI fragment containing ORF of flaB cloned into pTYB12

[28]

pET-30a(+)::dFlaB

pET-30a(+) plasmid containing a DNA-fragment of FlaB with deletion of spanned 175–193 amino acid at NdeI-XhoI

This study

pET-30a(+)::FlaBΔD2D3

pET-30a(+) plasmid containing a DNA-fragment of FlaB with deletion of D2D3 region at NdeI-XhoI

This study

  

This study

Influenza virus

  

H1N1

A/Brisbane/59/2007

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [11, 50]