TABLE 3.

Alginate and cellular dry mass production by different P. aeruginosa strains harboring various plasmids

Strain	Mean ± SD
	Alginate production (g/g CDM)	Cellular dry mass (CDM [g])
PAO1	NDa	0.227 ± 0.021
PAO1(pBBR1MCS-5)	ND	0.223 ± 0.029
PAO1(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8)	ND	0.202 ± 0.007
PDO300	0.091 ± 0.028	0.103 ± 0.006
PDO300(pBBR1MCS-5)	0.192 ± 0.004	0.115 ± 0.012
PDO300(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8)	1.314 ± 0.045	0.076 ± 0.011
PDO300Δalg8	ND	0.101 ± 0.003
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5)	ND	0.091 ± 0.002
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8)	2.039 ± 0.613	0.057 ± 0.002
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8His)	2.770 ± 0.545	0.046 ± 0.008
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8GFP)	3.092 ± 0.241	0.053 ± 0.007
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8phoA)	2.852 ± 0.387	0.046 ± 0.007
PDO300Δalg8(pBBR1MCS-5:alg8lacZ)	2.263 ± 0.192	0.056 ± 0.011

^aND, not detectable.