Screening of In Vivo Activated Genes in Enterococcus faecalis during Insect and Mouse Infections and Growth in Urine (original) (raw)
Figure 7
Effect of the deletion of the ef_0377 gene on virulence.
Deletion mutant of the in vivo induced genes encoding an ankyrin repeat protein (ef_0377) has been constructed. Surviving insects are counted from 16 to 24 hours after infection with E. faecalis V19 (black bar) and E. faecalis Δ377 (white bar). Bars indicated by an asterisk show a significant difference in comparison with wild type (*, p≤0.05; **, p≤0.01). Experiments were repeated at least three times.