Table 2.

Effect of H-NS on expression of V. cholerae exopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes and their regulators

Genea	Relative expression		Mutant/WT ratio
	WT	Δhns
vpsA∗	0.009 ± 0.0030	0.397 ± 0.2402	44
vpsL∗	0.006 ± 0.0001	0.689 ± 0.2500	115
vpsR∗	0.688 ± 0.1727	1.321 ± 0.1900	1.9
vpsT∗	0.058 ± 0.0030	1.338 ± 0.3683	23
hapR	4.724 ± 1.4778	6.566 ± 0.5593	1.4
cytR	0.830 ± 0.1690	1.087 ± 0.1077	1.3

^a∗, mutant significantly different from wild type (P < 0.01, one-tailed t test; n = 3).