Fig. 5: epsH deletion affects the growth in biofilm-forming conditions.

a CFU counts indicate faster cell proliferation of ΔepsH in biofilm-forming conditions compared to the WT. b ΔepsH demonstrated significantly shorter generation time in comparison to WT. One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test, error bar: mean ± SD. ***p = 0.0009.