Fig 5.

Growth curves of staphylococcal strains carrying different plasmids in the presence of aureocin A53 (2,048 BU). With the exception of pRJ9, whose host strain is A53, the remaining plasmids are in the genetic background of strain RN4220. pNO6 (pCC1 plus pIL252), pNO9 (pCC1 plus pT181), and pCN37 are the vectors used, and their host strains were employed as controls. pRJ85 represents aucEFG cloned into pNO6; pRJ88 represents aucIB-aucIA cloned into pNO9, and pRJ89 represents aucIB-aucIA cloned into pCN37. The curves were generated with the results representing the means of three independent experiments.