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. 2018 Nov 13;8:16742. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34918-2

Figure 2.

Figure 2

SaPI induction of S. aureus clinical strains by endogenous phages. In total, 14 strains were treated with mitomycin C (2 µg/mL) to activate the SOS response and induce the resident prophages. Samples were isolated at 0 and 90 minutes, separated in agarose gel and blotted with the SaPI integrase-specific probe. The upper band corresponds to chromosomal bulk DNA including SaPI, and the lower bands correspond to covalently closed circular SaPI (CCC) excised from the genome or SaPI monomers released from the phage capsid (L) if the helper phage mediated induction and packaging.