Fig. 3.
Effect of ebpABC deletion and ebpABC-ace double deletion on the adherence of OG1RF to immobilized ECM proteins. (A) Adherence to collagen type I by ebp and ace mutants; (B) adherence to fibronectin by the ebp mutant; (C) adherence to collagen type I by complementation constructs. Bars represent mean percentages ± SD of 35S-labeled cells adhering to 16 ECM protein-coated wells from four independent experiments. BSA was used as a negative control. Means of adherence percentages of different strains were compared using ANOVA and Bonferroni's posttest. Means of complemented strains were compared with appropriate vector-only control strains using t test or ANOVA and Bonferroni's posttest. *, P < 0.05 versus the wild type by post hoc test; **, P < 0.001 versus the wild type and ΔebpABC mutant by post hoc test; ***, P < 0.001 versus the wild type and ΔebpABC mutant and P < 0.05 versus the Δace mutant by post hoc test; ****, P < 0.001 versus vector-only control by post hoc test.