Fig. 11.

Mature biofilms increase nitrogen metabolism and reduce ATP synthesis. Listed are homologous genes organized by KEGG ontological functions, pertaining to oxidative phosphorylation and nitrogen metabolism. USA300 locus tags are used throughout. The heatmaps depict levels of preferential expression in biofilms (blue) or planktonic (red) populations at 5, 10 and 24 h. Values for colours were assigned based on RNA-seq fold-difference in expression between biofilm and planktonic cell population for each timepoint and each strain analysed independently.