Figure 1.

Altered bacterial motility in the ΔoprC strain. After the bacteria were incubated at 37°C for 24 h, (A) swarming motility (n = 3) and (B) swimming motility (n = 3) were assessed in a BM2 plate containing 0.5% agar and an LB plate containing 0.3% agar, respectively. (C) Twitching motility (n = 3) after incubating for 60 h at 37°C. (D) Bacterial growth curves (n = 4) on LB media are shown. Error bars represent the mean ± s.d. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed for bacteria growth curves analysis. One-way ANOVA with a post-hoc Tukey test was performed for comparison of means of groups in other cases.