TABLE 2 .

Induction of pftAB by the LytST TCS

Strain	Genotypea	PpftAB expression (U ⋅ OD600−1)
		M9SE	M9SE+P
TC35	WT	0.2 ± 0.3	4.4 ± 0.2
TC59	ΔlytST	0.7 ± 0.5	0.3 ± 0.4
TC149	PpftAB-ΔlytT1b	0.1 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.2
TC125	PpftAB-ΔlytT2b	0.2 ± 0.3	0.4 ± 0.1
TC126	PpftAB-ΔlytT1-2b	0.5 ± 0.7	0.4 ± 0.3

^aMore-complete relevant genotypes are given in Table 1.

^bThe deleted LytT binding sites are shown in Fig. 4C.