| Strains or plasmids | Phenotypes and correlative characters | Sources |
| Bacterial strains | ||
| E. coli DH5α | φ80 LacZ△M15, deoR, recA1, endA1, hsdR17, supE, thi, gyrA, relA | This lad |
| CGMCC1.10327 | L. mesenteroides | This lad |
| Leu ack::TetR | CGMCC1.10327 with ack knock-out | This work |
| Plasmids | ||
| pBR322 | TetR | This lad |
| pTA2-T | T-Vector, 2.98kb, AmpR, lacZ | TOYOBO |
| pTA2-ack | pTA2 containing ack fragment from L. mesenteroides | This work |
| pTA2-Tet | pTA2 containing TetR fragment from pBR322 | This work |
| pTA2-T-U | pTA2-Tet containing ack upstream fragment from pTA2-ack | This work |
| pTA2-T-U-D | pTA2-T-U containing ack downstream fragment from pTA2-ack | This work |