Table 1.

Gut colonization of deletion mutants in LCM mice (C.I. values for hits identified in Fig.1)^*.

			day 1 p.i.		day 2 p.i.		day 3 p.i.		day 4 p.i.
gene	function	gene #	median C.I.	p value	median C.I.	p value	median C.I.	p value	median C.I.	p value
rfaP	LPS synth.	3687	0.10	0.002	0.11	1E-03	0.06	1E-03	0.00	0.016
gor	other	3562	0.11	0.002	0.13	1E-03	0.07	1E-03	0.00	0.016
rfbP	LPS synth.	2059	0.62	0.027	0.33	1E-03	0.21	2E-03	0.43	0.016
cpxA	regulation	4007	0.29	0.002	0.11	1E-03	0.09	1E-03	0.00	0.016
rfaB	LPS synth.	3685	0.21	0.002	0.13	1E-03	0.06	1E-03	0.01	0.016
phoB	regulation	392	0.28	0.002	0.23	1E-03	0.26	1E-03	0.49	0.016
yjgF	unknown	4389	0.28	0.002	0.21	1E-03	0.23	1E-03	0.40	0.016
yjfQ	regulation	4314	0.30	0.002	0.16	1E-03	0.13	1E-03	0.00	0.016
dcuR	regulation	4240	0.34	0.002	0.27	1E-03	0.25	1E-03	0.01	0.016
hilC	virulence	2847	1.14	0.014	1.25	1E-02	2.63	2E-01	6.13	0.047
hilD	virulence	2855	1.42	0.049	1.42	4E-01	2.76	7E-02	6.97	0.016

^*we selected the hits with C.I.s < 0.68 or >2.06 in RB-TnSeq screen and analyzed 10 (or 9) mice (day 1), 11 mice (day 2, day 3), or 7 mice (day 4) respectively; The full dataset is shown in Tab. S2