Fig 1.
Viable cell count of 18-h cultures. Stationary cultures of W3110 or PR200.1 were diluted to 5 × 105 CFU/ml in Mueller-Hinton broth and divided in three. (RFF)3RXB-FtsZ (FtsZ) or scrambled-base-sequence (Scr) control PPMO (160 μM) or no PPMO was added. Cultures were grown aerobically at 37°C for 18 h, and then samples of each were diluted and plated to determine viable cells. Error bars indicate standard deviations. *, highly significant (P < 0.01) difference compared to either the no-PPMO or scrambled-base-sequence (Scr) control-treated culture.