Table 3.

Significant changes in gene expression induced by the presence of the Lcn972-encoding plasmid pBL1 in L. lactis MG1614 cultures growing exponentially in GM17 broth

Gene	Ratioa	Bayesian Pb	Annotationc
Upregulated
llmg0701_oppA	4.83	9.50E−08	Oligopeptide-binding protein OppA
llmg1012	4.73	4.00E−06	Putative ABC transporter substrate-binding protein
llmg0676	3.14	1.28E−05	Hypothetical acetyltransferase
llmg0699_oppB	2.85	2.31E−06	Peptide transport system permease protein OppB
llmg0642	2.41	5.22E−05	Hypothetical protein
llmg0711_tnpR	2.40	5.13E−04	DNA-invertase/resolvase
llmg2348	2.36	7.65E−05	Hypothetical protein
llmg0674_tnp1297	2.03	3.28E−06	Transposase for insertion sequence element IS1297
Downregulated
llmg0186	−4.93	5.49E−10	Conserved hypothetical protein
llmg0187_celB	−4.59	4.53E−04	Cellobiose-specific PTS system IIC component

^aGenes whose expression changes over 2-fold in the presence of pBL1 are shown. Negative values indicate downregulation.

^bDetermined by the Cyber-t test (32).

^cAccording to GenBank accession number AM406671.