Table 1.

Suppression of sporulation by sof-1

Strain	Genotype	Sporulation (%) a
IS75	Wild-type (IS75)	79.6±6 (n=7)
BD3032	ΔymcA	0.023±0.003 (n=6)
BD7186	Δspo0F	0 (n=6)
BD7307	Δspo0F sof-1	79.5±10.8 (n=8)
BD7315	ΔymcA spo0F sof-1	28.7±18.3 (n=8)

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Sporulation is expressed as

$$\frac{(\text{heat}\text{resistant}\text{colony}\text{forming}\text{units})}{(\text{total}\text{colony}\text{forming}\text{units})}\times 100$$

All determinations were repeated at least 6 independent times, and are shown ± standard deviations. The strains were all grown for 24 hours in DSM at 37°C.