Primers used in this study.

The primers were used to delete the sinI, sinR, sinI-sinR and abrB genes from the strain 407, or to create transcriptional fusions between the promoters of hbl or of sinI and lacZ, yfp or mcherry on the pHT304-18 plasmid.
a: underlined sequences indicate the location of restriction sites, and lower case letters indicate overlapping sequences complementary to Phbl (not underlined) or to PsinI (underlined).