Neisseria gonorrhoeae was grown overnight at 37°C and 5% CO
2 on agar plates containing gonococcal base (GC) agar [10 g/l
Bacto agar (BD Biosciences, Bedford, MA, United States), 5 g/l
NaCl (Roth, Darmstadt, Germany), 4 g/l K
2HPO
4 (Roth), 1 g/l KH
2PO
4 (Roth), 15 g/l
Proteose Peptone No. 3 (BD), 0.5 g/l
soluble starch (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, United States)] supplemented with IsoVitaleX (IVX): 1 g/l
D-Glucose (Roth), 0.1 g/l
L-glutamine (Roth), 0.289 g/l
L-cysteine-HCL × H
20 (Roth), 1 mg/l
thiamine pyrophosphate (Sigma-Aldrich), 0.2 mg/l Fe(NO
3)
3 (Sigma-Aldrich), 0.03 mg/l
thiamine HCl (Roth), 0.13 mg/l
4-aminobenzoic acid (Sigma-Aldrich), 2.5 mg/l
β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (Roth) and 0.1 mg/l vitamin B
12 (Sigma-Aldrich). GC medium is identical to the base agar composition but lacks agar and starch.
E. coli was grown in LB (Lysogeny Broth, Roth) medium or on LB agar plates (15 g/l
Bacto agar (BD Biosciences, Bedford, MA, United States) at 37°C.
For
N. gonorrhoeae antibiotics were used at the following concentrations: 2.5–5 μg/ml
erythromycin (Thermo-Fisher), 100 μg/ml
streptomycin (Sigma-Aldrich), 10 μg/ml
chloramphenicol (Sigma-Aldrich). For
E. coli antibiotics were used at the following concentrations: 50 μg/mL
kanamycin (Roth).
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