FIG 5.

RodA protects against cell wall damage. (a) CFU/ml over time for wild-type (wt) and ΔrodA cells treated with mutanolysin/lysozyme. n = 3. Compare these findings to Fig. S7 in the supplemental material. (b) Ratios of treated/untreated CFU after 2 h of mutanolysin/lysozyme treatment, comparing wild-type cells plus empty vector (EV), ΔrodA cells plus empty vector, ΔrodA cells plus rodA-mRFP (R), and wild-type cells plus rodA-mRFP. n = 4 independent experiments, two of which were done in triplicate. Significance was determined using analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by a Tukey post hoc test to conduct pairwise comparisons. *, P < 0.05, the only significant relationship portrayed.