Figure 2.

Hydrophobicity of wt M5 and its ΔNH2 and ΔA mutants. Bacteria were grown overnight in THB in the absence or presence of SpeB inhibitor (E64), harvested and washed in distilled water to determine percent hydrophobicity (+/−S.D), as described in Materials and Methods. The asterisk denotes a significant difference between wt and the ΔNH2 mutant (p<0.01).