Comparative Assessment of Factors Involved in Acetoin Synthesis by Bacillus subtilis 168

Table 1

List of plasmid, strains, and their sources.

Plasmids/strain	Genotype description	Source
pHCMC	E. coli, Bacillus shuttle vector, Cam^r, Ap^r	BGSC*
pHCMC-alsSD	alsSD (2.5 Kb) operon cloned at BamH1 and XbaI site of pHCMC05	Lab stock
Bacillus subtilis 168	trpC2	BGSC*
BS7431	trpC2 pHCMC	Lab stock
BS7432	trpC2 pHCMalsSD	Lab stock
BSIP1194	trpC2 alsR::cam	[14]

∗Bacillus Genetic Stock Center.