Table 2.

Relative expression of total and long sea transcripts without and with MC present during growth^a

Strain	Total transcript level			Long transcript levelb
	3 h without MC	6 h without MC	6 h with MC
Mu50	0.37 ± 0.05	0.52 ± 0.25	0.0055 ± 0.00	—
Sa55	0.54 ± 0.13	0.031 ± 0.00	1.26 ± 0.28	1.03 ± 0.14
Sa45	0.57 ± 0.04	0.088 ± 0.02	19.40 ± 2.23	7.99 ± 0.99
Sa17	0.20 ± 0.03	0.36 ± 0.09	121.65 ± 34.57	100.74 ± 15.15
Sa21	0.23 ± 0.01	0.77 ± 0.06	0.23 ± 0.04	—
Sa53	0.31 ± 0.08	0.097 ± 0.04	7.61 ± 0.80	12.01 ± 2.94
Sa43	0.71 ± 0.05	0.12 ± 0.03	40.92 ± 6.63	21.35 ± 2.85
Sa48	0.37 ± 0.03	0.049 ± 0.00	122.12 ± 27.27	94.37 ± 13.76
Sa41	0.39 ± 0.03	0.067 ± 0.01	3.92 ± 1.42	3.89 ± 0.22
MW2	0.29 ± 0.04	0.0036 ± 0.00	1.16 ± 0.38	0.97 ± 0.43
MRSA252	0.14 ± 0.02	0.036 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.03	—
Newman	1.03 ± 0.13	0.0041 ± 0.00	0.025 ± 0.00	—

^aThe amount of sea mRNA was too small to determine in the low-SEA-producing strains.

^b—, no detectable long transcript.