Figure 1

Role of FdeC in adhesion of APEC IMT5155 to chicken intestinal epithelial cells. A Determination of FdeC expression inducing conditions by Western Blotting. Protein molecular weight marker (kDa), OD₆₀₀- phase of growth (0.5, 1.0), Temperature- 37 °C or 42 °C, pH-, not adjusted (empty space), 5.8 or 8.0; Full size Western blotting images are presented in Additional file 3) Adhesion assay performed in FdeC expression inducing conditions. Names of isolates used for adhesion to CHIC-8E11 cells are shown on the x-axis. The percent of isolate’s adhesion relative to IMT5155 WT is shown on y-axis. Error bars show median absolute deviations from at least three experiments. All statistically significant comparisons are shown. Statistically significant observations with p value < 0.05 are marked with “*”.