FIG 2.

IscR-regulated genes possibly involved in the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus. Twelve genes possibly involved in the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus were chosen from the pool of the IscR regulon members predicted by microarray analysis. Regulation of their transcription by IscR was confirmed by qRT-PCR. Each column represents the mRNA expression level in the iscR mutant relative to that of the parental wild-type strain. Error bars represent the SEM. Locus tags are based on the database of the V. vulnificus MO6-24/O genome sequence, which was retrieved from GenBank (accession numbers CP002469 and CP002470), and the products of the 12 genes are listed on the right.