Figure 5. 11Aβ strains display high heterogeneity in disruption of wcjE.
A) PCR products of region 9 from seven 11Aβ strains (β, bold) and in four 11Aα strains (α) were run on 1% agarose gel for size comparison. B) Depiction of the unique mutations affecting wcjE, including transposable element insertions, multiple-nucleotide deletions, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and nucleotide duplication (Dup). The 11Aα strain MNZ272 is depicted for comparison. Asterisks mark primer binding sites for region 9 PCR amplification. Values correspond to nucleotide distance from the wcjE start codon.