Table 1 Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

From: Metabolic engineering of Halomonas campaniensis strain XH26 to remove competing pathways to enhance ectoine production

Strains and plasmids

Functional characteristics

Source

Strains

 H. campaniensis strain XH26

Wild type

Laboratory stock, deposited at CCTCCM, China

 E. coli DH5α

Cloning host

Purchased from TaKaRa Bio. Inc. (Dalian, China)

 E. coli Stab13

Cloning host

Purchased from Sangon Bio. Inc. (Shanghai, China)

 Strain XH26/Δhom

Strain XH26 that is hom deficient

This study

 E. coli DH5α/pUC57-sgRNA

E. coli DH5α containing recombinant plasmid pUC57-sgRNA (2879 bp)

This study

 E. coli DH5α/pMD19-T-L

E. coli DH5α containing recombinant plasmid pMD19-T-L

This study

 E. coli DH5α/pMD19-T-R

E. coli DH5α containing recombinant plasmid pMD19-T-R

This study

 E. coli Stab13/pwtCas9-bacteria

E. coli Stab13 containing plasmid pwtCas9-bacteria

This study

 E. coli DH5α/pMD19-T-L + R

E. coli DH5α containing recombinant plasmid pMD19-T-L + R

This study

Plasmids

 pMD19-T

Lac promoter, cloning vector, Ampr

Purchased from TaKaRa Bio Inc (Dalian, China)

 pUC57

Lac promoter, cloning vector, Kanr

Purchased from Genscript Bio Inc (Nanjing, China)

 pwtCas9-bacteria

TetR/tetA promoter, AmpR promoter, bacterial knockout vector, Ampr, Tetr

Purchased from Miaoling Bio Inc (Wuhan, China)

 pUC57-sgRNA

pUC57 containing the sgRNA

This study

 pMD19-T-L

pMD19-T containing the left arm of the donor vector

This study

 pMD19-T-R

pMD19-T containing the right arm of the donor vector

This study

 pMD19-T-L + R

pMD19-T containing the donor vectors (L + R)

This study