A list of bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study is provided in
Table 1.
P. aeruginosa PAO1 was either grown in complex Luria Bertani (LB) Miller broth (Carl Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany) or in BM2 minimal medium [62 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, 7 mM (NH
4)
2SO
2, 2 mM MgSO
4, 10 μM FeSO
4, 0.4% (w/v) Glucose] at 37°C and 170 rpm. In BM2-swarm medium, 7 mM (NH
4)
2SO
4 was substituted for 0.5% (w/v) casamino acids.
Escherichia coli strains DH5α and BL21(DE3) were cultivated in LB medium at 37°C. For overexpression experiments, the arabinose-inducible expression vector pJN105 and the IPTG-inducible vector pET23a were used. Antibiotics ampicillin (100 μg/ml) and gentamicin (10 μg/ml for
E. coli; 30 μg/ml for
P. aeruginosa) were added for plasmid selection and/or maintenance.
Hypochlorite was added in the form of aqueous sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) or calcium hypochlorite [Ca(ClO)
2] solutions as mentioned within the text. For effects caused by both, NaClO and Ca(ClO)
2 treatment, the general term HClO was used within the manuscript.
Free chlorine concentrations of HClO solutions (VWR, Darmstadt, Germany) were determined prior to each assay using DPD Free Chlorine Powder Pillows (VWR, Darmstadt, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
The sequences of
DNA primers (Eurofins MWG Operon, Germany) used in these studies are shown in Supplementary Tables
S1 and
S2.
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