Fig. 4

Detection of intronic promoter activity. a–d The images of gfp gene expression in recombinant strains initiated by different promoters. Strains harboring plasmids of (a) pBBR1MCS-2, (b) pBBR-PtufB_gfp (c) pBBR-P1_gfp or (d) pBBR-P2_gfp were photographed with a fluorescence microscope. e The whole cell relative fluorescence intensity (RFU/OD) of different strains was measured using a fluorescence microplate reader. Data in e represents the mean ± SD of 3 replicates