Assays

B. subtilis was grown in M9 media with glucose as carbon source and the samples were harvested during exponential phase (OD600nm- 0.4), early stationary phase(OD600nm- 1.3), late stationary phase(OD600nm- 1.0). All the samples were analysed for transcriptome as biological triplicates.

We use BSA115 strain which lacks RsbU and RsbW proteins. Therefore, there is limited post-transcriptional regulation of sigmaB activity. SigmaB itself is placed downstream of Pspac, inducible by IPTG. The lacZ reporter gene is downstream of Pctc promoter. IPTG concentrations of 0.1, 0.2 and 1 mM are added in mid-exponential phase at an OD of appr. 0.3. The whole experiment runs for about eight hours.