File S1 - The ComP-ComA Quorum System Is Essential For “Trojan horse” Like Pathogenesis in Bacillus nematocida

It contains: Table S1, Table S2, Table S3, Table S4, and Figures S1-S3. Figure S1. Analysis to phylogeny (A) and nematocidal activities (B) among B. Nematocida and its neighbors in the genus of Bacillus. Our data demonstrated that the model species B. subtilus had little nematocidal activity that was comparable with the negative control of E. coli. Figure S2. Homologous modeling predicted high homologies in protein three-dimensional structures of the trans-activating factors CodY (A), AbrB (B), DegU (C), ComA (D) and PurR (E) between B. Nematocida and B. subtilus. Green represented the trans-activating factors from B. Nematocida; yellow represented the trans-activating factors from B. subtilus.Figure S3. Purification of the heterologously expressed protein ComA of B.nematocida B16. M represented the molecular markers of protein. (DOC)