Figure 2.
Depletion of PPE51 does not affect the growth of Mtb Growth kinetics (A) of the wild-type (black) strain and the T-6/2 (red), PPE51 CRISPR-weak (green) and PPE51 CRISPR-strong (blue) mutants of M. tuberculosis in 7H9/OADC medium, supplemented (dashed lines) or not (solid lines) with aTc. (B) Immunodetection of PPE51 and control SigA proteins in the cell lysis of wild-type M. tuberculosis (lines 1–2) and CRISPR mutants (CRISPR-weak, lines 3–4; CRISPR-strong, lines 5–6) grown in rich medium supplemented or not with aTc, with rabbit anti-PPE51 (upper panel) and anti-SigA (bottom panel) serum. (C) Densitometry analysis of bands representing PPE51 normalized to the control SigA protein.