Fig. 2.
Construction of strain Wm a Illustration of sigF markerless knockout construction in B. subtilis WB600; b Gel electrophoresis of colony PCR products from amplified target gene sigF using primers sigF-upF/sigF-downR The wild-type genotype results in a product of 2139 bp, whereas the deletion of the sigF is confirmed by a shift of the product to 1465 bp