Figure 3.

Phenotypic characteristics of the B. cenocepacia clonal variants IST439 and IST4113, retrieved from the same CF patient sputum during long-term residence in the lung and whose genomic expression was compared by quantitative proteomic and transcriptomic analyses. (A) Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values; (B) Growth of IST439 and IST4113 under limited or load iron conditions; (C) Fatty acid saturation of the clonal variants obtained during the 41-months of chronic colonization; (D) Colony morphology; (E) Amount of biofilms formed based on crystal violet method; (F) Swarming and swimming motilities; (G) Zeta potential; (H) Cell size; (I) Exopolysaccharide produced; (J) Fraction of cells at the interface of water and n-hexadecane. Based on results from Coutinho et al. (2011) and Madeira et al. (2011).