Table 3.

Effect of pB10 carriage on bacterial adhesion properties.

	Planktonic biomass (OD600nm)		Adhering biomass (OD540nm)		Relative biofilm amount (arbitrary unit: OD540nm/OD600nm)
Strains/species	Without pB10	With pB10	Without pB10	With pB10	Without pB10	With pB10	Fold increase
E. coli DH5α	3.205 ± 0.032	3.686 ± 0.038	0.323 ± 0.072	1.101 ± 0.129	0.10 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.03	3.18 ± 1.04
E. coli MG1655	4.669 ± 0.219	4.960 ± 0.388	0.254 ± 0.047	0.309 ± 0.065	0.05 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.02	1.15 ± 0.09
C. metallidurans	3.251 ± 0.136	3.271 ± 0.313	0.530 ± 0.152	0.898 ± 0.483	0.16 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.16	1.70 ± 1.04
B. subtilis	3.988 ± 0.357	3.700 ± 0.056	0.372 ± 0.045	0.864 ± 0.222	0.10 ± 0.02	0.23 ± 0.06	2.53 ± 0.64
P. putida	5.787 ± 0.211	5.047 ± 0.220	2.361 ± 0.405	2.838 ± 0.092	0.41 ± 0.08	0.56 ± 0.03	1.44 ± 0.33
P. fluorescens	3.401 ± 1.238	2.715 ± 1.522	0.513 ± 0.047	0.591 ± 0.026	0.17 ± 0.06	0.30 ± 0.15	1.64 ± 0.38
S. oneidensis	4.985 ± 1.317	4.719 ± 1.142	0.503 ± 0.150	0.419 ± 0.200	0.12 ± 0.08	0.11 ± 0.08	0.82 ± 0.09
D. acidovorans	4.501 ± 0.488	3.634 ± 0.915	2.664 ± 0.384	2.294 ± 0.928	0.60 ± 0.12	0.67 ± 0.21	1.09 ± 0.14

Values are expressed as a mean ± standard error (n = 3).