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Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2021 May 18;116(2):550–563. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14732

TABLE 1.

mucA is essential in a variety of wild-type P. aeruginosa strains

Strain background	Description^†	Number of isolates resolved to
Strain background	Description^†	WT	∆mucA
PAO1	Laboratory strain, Class II	168	0^*
PA14	Laboratory strain, Class I	147	0^*
PA103	Laboratory strain, unclassified	361	0^*
PAK	Laboratory strain, unclassified	191	0^*
CF127	Mucoid CF isolate, unclassified	136	0^*
CF18	Non-mucoid CF isolate, unclassified	129	0^*
CF27	Rugose CF Isolate, Class IV	152	0^*
X13273	Blood isolate, Class II	142	0^*
X24509	UTI isolate, Class II	221	0^*
MSH10	Water isolate, Class III	146	0^*
E2	Tomato plant isolate, Class II	141	0^*

*p < .0001, Fischer’s exact test.

†Class identification is based on the exopolysaccharide expression profile as described in (Colvin et al., 2012): Class I, Pel-dominant matrix; Class II, Psl-dominant matrix; Class III, exopolysaccharide redundant matrix users; and Class IV, matrix overproducers. CF, cystic fibrosis; UTI, urinary tract infection.