Figure 7

Bacterial adhesion and anti-phagocytosis assays. A The ability of WT, ΔcapD and CΔcapD to adhere to EPC and bEnd.3 cells. B Anti-phagocytotic ability of WT, ΔcapD and CΔcapD in RAW264.7 macrophages. The error bars represent the means ± standard deviations from three independent experiments (**indicates P < 0.01; ***indicates P < 0.001; Student’s t test).