DNA was amplified using a high fidelity enzyme (PrimeStar HS, Takara Bio Inc., Japan), or a standard enzyme (BIOTaq, Bioline, UK), and primers detailed in Additional file 1 Table S1. Amplicons were cloned using the CloneJET PCR Cloning Kit (Thermo Scientific) or the pGEM-T Easy Vector System (Promega). Purification of plasmids from E. coli was carried out following a boiling method [64 (link)] or using a commercial kit (Illustra plasmidPrep Mini Spin Kit, GE Healthcare). For plasmid profile gels, DNA was purified by alkaline lysis and separated by electrophoresis in 0.8% agarose gels with 1xTAE as described [25 (link)]. Plasmids were transferred to P. syringae by electroporation [65 ].
DNA sequences were compared and aligned using the BLAST algorithms [66 (link)], as well as the on-line MULTALIN [67 (link)] and EMBL-EBI server tools (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/). The InterPro interface [68 (link)] (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/) was used to search for protein motifs. Nucleotide sequence visualization and manipulation was performed using the Artemis genome browser and ACT [69 (link)]. Primers were designed using the Primer3plus software [70 (link)].
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