Figure 4. Bypass of cotE phenotypes by CotH over-production.

Effect of lysozyme (A) and germination efficiency (B) of spores of the wild type (closed squares), a cotE null mutant (open squares) and a cotE null mutant over-producing CotH (gray squares). OD, optical density. Germination was induced by Asn-GFK as previously reported [14]. Error bars are based on the standard deviation of 5 independent experiments.