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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004 Jun 6;11(7):10.1038/nsmb783. doi: 10.1038/nsmb783

Figure 3.

Figure 3

DNA binding. Relative frequency of DNA binding to wild type (WT; BD3458) (n = 100), bacteria lacking the presumed membrane channel ComEC (BD3476) (n = 50), bacteria lacking the ComG proteins (BD3484) (n = 100) and beads without biotinylated DNA (BD3458) (n = 225). In most cases a DNA tether formed between the bead and the bacteria, but sometimes the bead was firmly stuck to the bacterium. Because the direct contact of the bead with the bacterium is irrelevant for our experiments we counted only the tethers.