Figure 2

Western immunoblot analysis of the level of toxin components upon treatment with the SecA inhibitor azide and in Tat, Com, and FEA mutants. (A) Western blots showing the level of toxin components in B. cereus ATCC 14579 culture supernatants and cell lysates harvested 20 minutes after cells grown to transition phase were washed and resuspended in fresh culture medium with 2 mM sodium azide (azide) or 2 mM sodium azide and 200 μM PapR pentapetide (PapR). The control culture (ctrl) was grown in BHI only. Toxin components in culture supernatants from (B) B. cereus ATCC 14579 wild-type (wt), ΔtatAC, and ΔcomGA strains (C) B. thuringiensis 407 (wt) and its non-flagellated flhA mutant, harvested one hour into stationary phase.