Figure 3.

Average growth rates from growth data presented in this manuscript. Yellow, parent strain; blue, ΔMbhABC; orange, ΔMrp; and gray, ΔMrp/ΔMbhABC. Error bars represent SD of biological triplicate samples. A two-tailed t-test assuming unequal variance was used to determine statistical significance. NS, not significant; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.