Team:LMU-Munich/Data/Knockout

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Knockouts of germination genes

We induced our germination-mutant strains to sporulate in Difco sporulation media. Then we measured the germination rate of mutant spores in a germination assay.

Fig. 5: Comparison of colony growth on LB-agar (plus antibiotics) plates. Upper plates are plated with DSM cell/spore cultures that have been heated at 80°C for 1 hour to kill living cells (but does not affect spores). This prevents cells from forming colonies. Therefore, all colonies observed are from germinated spores. Lower plates contain cultures which have not been heated. Growth on these plates is from either cells or spores, and demonstrates that strains are able to grow. WT168 has no germination knockouts; strains B40-B43 have triple knockouts; strains B46 and B47 have quadruple knockouts; Spo0A has a knockout of the sporulation gene Spo0A (replaced with a tet cassette). WT168 is a positive control; Spo0A is a negative control.
Strains:
B40 -- cwlD::kan, sleB::mls, cwlJ::spec
B41 -- cwlD::kan, sleB::mls, gerD::cat
B42 -- cwlD::kan, cwlJ::spec, gerD::cat
B43 -- gerD::cat, sleB::mls, cwlJ::spec
B46 -- cwlD::kan, cwlJ::spec, gerD::cat, sleB::mls
B47 -- gerD::cat, sleb::mls, cwlJ::spec, cwlD::kan

The plate growth demonstrates the inability of our mutant spores to germinate. We can say that fewer than 1 out of 3x10^7 spores of strains B40, B41, B43, B46, and B47 germinated.

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