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Table 5 Bacterial strains used in this study

From: Anti-mycobacterial activity of heat and pH stable high molecular weight protein(s) secreted by a bacterial laboratory contaminant

Bacterial strain

Culture medium and temperature

Source

Lab contamination strain (LC-1)

NB at 37 °C

A

Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

7H9 at 37 °C

B

Mycobacterium bovis BCG strain

7H9 at 37 °C

C

Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155

7H9 at 37 °C

D

Escherichia coli DH5α

LB at 37 °C

E

Staphylococcus aureus (clinical strain)

LB at 37 °C

F

  1. NB: nutrient broth; 7H9: 7H9 broth supplemented with 0.2% glycerol, 0.1% Tween 80 and 10% OADC/ADC; LB: Luria Bertani broth; A: Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; B: Kind gift from Dr. Richard F. Silver, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; C: Kind gift from Dr. Calvin Boon, Mycobacterium Biology Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell biology, Singapore; D: Kind gift from Dr. D. Chatterji, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; E: Invitrogen Inc., Carlsbad, CA, USA; F: Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India