Fig 5.

Growth phenotypes of ΔmadA and ΔmftC. The mutant strains ΔmadA (A) and ΔmftC (C) and their complements, ΔmadA-C (B) and ΔmftC-C (D), were grown in microtiter plates on minimal medium containing 3 mM acetate and either a further 15 mM acetate, 15 mM EG, or 90 mM ethanol. Complement strains contained plasmids with the complementing gene, while the mutant strains contained the empty vector. Cultures were induced with 1 µg/mL of thiostrepton at t = 0 h. Values represent the mean of biological triplicates. Error is given as standard deviation and represented as bands around the curves.