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Figure 5A depicts the relative fold change in hBMEC transcript levels upon infection with B. anthracis Sterne or ΔpXO1 mutant bacteria compared to the uninfected control.

More bacteria were recovered from the livers and spleens of mice infected with prfA* mutant bacteria compared to those infected with wild type bacteria, and the mutant strains exhibited a competitive advantage in mixed infections (Figs. 5 and 6).

Interestingly, there was a significantly greater number of steC mutant bacteria compared to WT and Δ steC, p steC bacteria after both 8 hr and 12 hr growth in HeLa cells and after 24 hr in BM macrophages.

qRT-PCR showed that although there were no significant differences in the levels of ccpA or rofA transcripts when WT and mutant bacteria are compared during exponential growth, the level of rgg transcripts was greatly increased in the ΔdltA mutants of both strains (Table 3).

To reassess the possibility of an effect of SteC on virulence, we inoculated mice by the oral route with a mixed inoculum comprising equivalent numbers of WT and steC mutant bacteria and compared their growth after 4 days by competitive index (CI) analysis, which provides a sensitive measure of the relative degree of attenuation (Beuzón and Holden, 2001).

Conversely, introduction of a plasmid borne copy of flipR restored viability of the bacteria compared to either the ΔflipR mutant or the ΔflipR mutant harboring the empty control plasmid (Fig. 3i).

For instance, as early as 2 dpi, mutant leaves already showed a 10-fold increase in the concentration of bacteria compared to WT leaves.

While at 48 and 60 h, no mutant bacteria were recovered compared to WT which showed 1.8×104 and 2.7×102 CFU of bacteria, respectively.

At least 10-fold more mutant bacteria were internalized by macrophages as compared to the parent strain if the bacteria were first fixed with formaldehyde, suggesting a surface structure is required for the high phagocytosis rate.

To overcome this limitation we propose a general framework that utilizes the genome of relative organisms as mediators for comparing WT and mutant bacteria.

Brennan et al. compared how wild-type bacteria and mutant bacteria that either had no flagella, or had flagella that did not rotate, interacted with young squid.