Table 3. Control of σ^G or σ^K target genes by both σ^F and σ^E.

Gene		Function	Expression ratio
Forespore σG-dependent			sigF/630Δerm	sigE/630Δerm	sigG/630Δerm
transcriptome
CD1486		Putative ribosome recycling factor	0.10	0.26	0.17
CD1631	sodA	Superoxide dismutase (Mn)	0.06	0.21	0.32
CD1880		Conserved hypothetical protein	0.07	0.21	0.25
CD3249	sspB	Small, acid-soluble spore protein beta	0.01	0.04	0.07
CD3551.1		Putative membrane protein	0.11	0.31	0.18
qRT-PCR
CD0773	spoVAC	DPA uptake protein, SpoVAC	<0.01	0.06	0.02
CD0792		Putative membrane protein, DUF81 family	<0.01	0.02	0.01
CD1213		Stage IVB sporulation protein B, peptidase	0.04	0.08	0.12
CD1290		Putative small acid-soluble spore protein	<0.01	0.05	0.01
CD1430	pdaA	Putative d-lactam-biosynthetic deacteylase	<0.01	0.14	0.03
CD2375		Conserved hypothetical protein	0.03	0.24	0.05
CD2465		Putative amino acid/polyamine transporter	0.18	0.15	0.19
CD2636		Putative membrane protein	<0.01	0.13	0.03
CD2688	sspA	Small, acid-soluble spore protein alpha	<0.01	0.05	0.02
CD3499	spoVT	Transcriptional regulator, SpoVT	<0.01	0.06	0.07

A gene is considered differentially expressed when the P value is <0.05 using the statistical analysis described in Materials and Methods.

qRT-PCR were performed as described in Materials and Methods.