Figure 7.
Temperature-dependent regulation of T6SS involved in virulence of Pseudomonas plecoglossicida. (A) qRT-PCR analysis of the expression of hcp, dotU, and icmF after stable gene silencing compared with the control. Data are presented as mean ± S.D. (n = 3). Means of treatments not sharing a common letter are significantly different at P < 0.05. (B) Biofilm formation of wild-type and stable silenced strains. Data are presented as mean ± S.D. (n = 6). Means of treatments not sharing a common letter are significantly different at P < 0.05. (C) The cumulative survival of E. coioides injected with wild-type and hcp-, dotU-, and icmF-RNAi strains during 10 days post-challenge.