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. 2021 Sep 2;12:660887. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.660887

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of motility and type IX secretion system (T9SS) gene deletions on biofilm formation. Biofilm formation was determined for strains with knockouts in genes linked to gliding motility (gldI, gldJ), the T9SS (gldJ, gldNO), and colony spreading (sprB). Knockouts (blue-dotted bars) and complemented knockouts (yellow-dashed bars) of F. johnsoniae were gldI and gldIc: UW102-41 and CJ1171; gldJ and gldJc: UW102-55 and CJ1111; gldNO and gldNOc: CJ1631A and CJ1640; and sprB and sprBc: CJ1922 and CJ2405. Results are reported as relative OD values (averages of at least four replicates; normalized to the wild type). Error bars indicate 95% CI. Different letters above the error bars represent different significance groups (one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey test, value of p=0.05).