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The fragment was cut with Nco I/Xho I and inserted into the expression vector pET-28a (+) (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). For construction of pBT-SmpB, the DNA fragment encoding SmpB protein was amplified from genomic DNA of A. veronii C4 with primers F8/R8, containing an EcoR I and Bgl II site, respectively, at the 5��-end. The fragment was cut with EcoR I/Bgl II and inserted into pBT (Keysight Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The truncation vectors pBT-SmpB ��N34 was created using pBT-SmpB as template and F9/R9 as primer pair. Likewise, pBT-SmpB��C30 was constructed with the replacement of the primer pair as F10/R10. For construction of pRE-��SmpB, both 400 bp upstream and downstream DNA fragments of SmpB target were amplified from genomic DNA of A. veronii C4 by PCR using primers F11/R11 and F12/R12, respectively. Purified and mixed PCR products (10 ��l each, 500 ng/��l) were used in an overlap extension PCR (Heckman and Pease, 2007) using primers F11/R12, which contain a Kpn I and Sac I site, respectively, at the 5��-end. The resulting 800 bp fusion DNA fragment was excised from a 1% agarose gel, purified and digested with Kpn I and Sac I, and then inserted into plasmid pRE112, which was generously provided by Dr. Kangsheng Li at Shantou University (Edwards et al., 1998). For construction of pRE-��tmRNA, 400 bp upstream DNA fragments of tmRNA target were amplified from genomic DNA of A. veronii C4 by PCR using primers F14/R14 containing a Hind III/Xba I site, respectively, at the 5��-end. Consistently, 400 bp upstream DNA fragments of tmRNA were amplified using primers F15/R15 containing Xba I/Xma I sites at the 5��-end. Each fragment was cut with appropriate restriction endonucleases and inserted into pRE112 (Edwards et al., 1998). Site-directed mutagenesis was performed according to the protocol provided by QuickChange Kit (Qiagen, Shenzhen, China). For constructing pDH212(SmpB-N1), in which first residue was substituted to stop codon at the selleck compound N-terminus, pDH212 was diluted with ddH2O to a concentration of 400 pg/��l, and used as the template. In the PCR reaction, 1 ��l of DNA template, 1 ��l primer F17 or R17 (10 mM), 25 ��l PrimeSTAR mix (Takara, Dalian, China) were included in the 50 ��l volume. After running for 20 cycles, the reactions were paused, and subsequently both PCR products were combined for an additional 10 cycles. At the end, PCR product was purified and digested with Dpn I before being transformed into E. coli/��tmRNA-smpB, in which both tmRNA and smpB were deleted (Hallier et al., 2004). The mutated plasmids were purified and confirmed by DNA sequencing (Sangon Biotech, Shanghai, China). Likewise, the pDH212 derivative mutants, pDH212(SmpB-N35) and pDH212(SmpB-C33), were obtained accordingly with primer sets F17/R18 and F19/R19.