Table 1 Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

From: Genome-wide screening of lipoproteins in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae identifies three antigens that confer protection against virulent challenge

Strains, plasmids and primers

Relevant characteristics

Sources

A. pleuropneumoniae

  JL03

serovar 3

Field isolate

  4074

serovar 1

From Dr. Pat Blackall

E. coli

  DH5a

Cloning vehicle: supE44 △lacU169 (φ80 lacZ△M15) hsdR17 recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 relA1

Takara

  BL21(DE3)

Expression host: F− ompT r−B m−B; DE3 is a λ derivative carrying lacI and T7 RNA polymerase genes under placUV5 control

Takara

Plasmids

  pMD18-T

E. coli cloning vector carrying an ampicillin resistance determinant.

Takara

  pMD-APJL_

pMD18-T carrying the coding sequence for lipoprotein of A. pleuropneumoniae JL03, for sequence analysis.

This work

  pGEX-KG

N-terminal glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion expression vector: pBR322 ori, Amp r.

Ref. 44

  pGEX-APJL_

pGEX-KG carrying the coding sequence for lipoprotein of A. pleuropneumoniae JL03, for the expression of GST-fusion recombinant protein

This work