Supplementary MaterialsS1 Table: Strains and plasmids used in this study. for surface migration on BHIS-1.8% agar 1% glucose (A, B) and for swimming motility through 0.5 BHIS-0.3% agar (C, D). TFP-null (manifestation plasmids were included in the surface migration assay (A, B). A nonmotile mutant was used like a control for swimming motility experiments (C, D). The press contained ATc at 0, 2, or 10 ng/ml (white, gray, and black bars, respectively) to induce gene manifestation. (B, D) Manifestation of inhibited growth at 10 ng/ml and was not included. Demonstrated are the means and standard deviations of the diameters of motile growth after 48 (C, D) or 72 (A, B) hours. **0.005, #0.0005, +0.0001, two-way ANOVA and Tukeys posttest. These data are representative of four self-employed experiments. Data can be found in supplemental file S1 Data. ATc, anhydrotetracycline; BHIS, mind heart infusion plus candida; with vector or manifestation plasmids were cultivated for 48 hours in 0.5 BHIS-0.3% agar to express flagellar genes. Bacteria were recovered and cultured in TY broth with inducer (10 ng/mL ATc for vector and pCmrR; 2 ng/mL ATc for pCmrT). Samples were collected in the midexponential phase for RNA extraction and qRT-PCR analysis. The data were analyzed using the Ct method with as the research gene and no ATc as the control condition. Demonstrated are the means and standard deviations of three biological replicates. Data can be found in supplemental file S1 Data. ATc, anhydrotetracycline; BHIS, mind heart infusion plus candida; mutant is definitely defective in cell elongation and chaining. (A) “type”:”entrez-nucleotide”,”attrs”:”text”:”R20291″,”term_id”:”774925″,”term_text”:”R20291″R20291 WT, ethnicities were noticed and cultivated on BHIS 1.8% agar 1% glucose for 72 hours. Cells from the colony edge were collected, Gram stained, and imaged at 60 magnification. Shown are representative images. PF 429242 (B) Quantification of cell lengths in Gram stain images from (A). At least two images from two biological replicates were used. The lengths of more than 514 cells per strain were measured using ImageJ and normalized to the average WT cell length. Means and standard deviations are shown. *< PF 429242 0.0001, one-way ANOVA. Data can be found in PF 429242 supplemental file S1 Data. (C) Representative images of the colony edges of WT, mutant exhibits an increase in biofilm formation. "type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":"text":"R20291","term_id":"774925","term_text":"R20291"R20291 smooth and rough isolates and the mutants were grown in BHIS 1% glucose 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer for 24 hours in 24-well polystyrene plates. Adhered biofilms were washed and quantified using a crystal violet staining assay. The means of four to five technical replicates were normalized to values for the "type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":"text":"R20291","term_id":"774925","term_text":"R20291"R20291 rough isolate and combined from two independent experiments. *< 0.05, one-way ANOVA with Dunnetts posttest. Data can be found in supplemental file S1 Data. BHIS, brain heart infusion plus yeast; and mutants are not defective in sporulation, germination, or toxin production. (A) Sporulation of "type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":"text":"R20291","term_id":"774925","term_text":"R20291"R20291 rough and smooth isolates and the and mutants after 24 hours on 70:30 agar. Sporulation is expressed as a percentage of viable spores versus total cells and then normalized to values obtained for the rough isolate. (B) Germination of spores over time after addition of the germinants taurocholic acid and glycine. (A, B) No statistically significant differences were observed using a one-way ANOVA, 3 biological replicates. (C) TcdA levels in bacterial lysates were assessed after 24 hours of growth in TY medium by western blot. Ponceau S staining was used to determine equal sample loading. (D) Quantification of TcdA western blots for four biological replicates. Intensity of the TcdA bands for each was normalized to intensity ENPP3 of Ponceau PF 429242 S staining per lane. Values were then normalized to the.
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