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Our results are in broad agreement with these studies with respect to the central role of NFκB in response to infection, but are also puzzling because we would not expect intestinal cells to respond so strongly to the presence of avirulent or heat-killed bacteria, even when presented on the apical surface of a confluent, polarized monolayer, regardless of the presence or absence of serum.
The data is presented in Figure 3. At the one day time point, the double mutant showed significant impairment in PR-5 induction relative to wild type in response to either avirulent bacterial strain (Student's t test, P < 0.05).
By the same sets of criteria described above for studying the difference between wild-type and actA infections, we examined whether there were any genes reproducibly induced by cytoplasmic bacteria (wild-type or actA ) but not by the avirulent organism ( prfA ). In this dataset, no genes passed these criteria during the first 4 hours of infection.
Induction of SAR has been reported to be dependent upon the NPR1 gene [ 9 10 11 ] . In these studies, neither SA/SA analogs nor avirulent bacteria were able to induce SAR on npr1 mutant plants.
In contrast to SAR induction, induction of PR-1 by avirulent bacteria has been shown to occur in npr1 mutants [ 11 ] . It is, however, reduced in extent and delayed.