The qPCR analysis was carried out using Brilliant III Ultra-Fast SYBR® Green QPCR Master Mix (Agilent, Switzerland) and an Mx3000P instrument (Agilent, Switzerland). The cDNA was prepared from an independent biological replicate (of both wild-type and ntrC mutant strains) as previously described [42 (link)]. Each PCR reaction was run in triplicate with 3 dilutions of cDNA (15, 7.5 and 3.75 ng) using 15 μl 2x Brilliant III Ultra-Fast SYBR® Green QPCR Master Mix, and 5 μM of individual primers in a total volume of 30 μl. Fold-changes in transcription and the standard deviation of 9 sample dilutions were calculated using the ΔΔ CT method [43 (link)]. The primary σ factor gene rpoD was used as a reference for normalization. All the primers used are listed in S1 Table.
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