Table 3: Bacterial Survival Rate (BSR) of the desiccation-rehydration sensitive mutants after 18 days under stress conditions and the associated genes that are interrupted in each, determined by arbitrary PCR.

Strain BSR 18 days After Desiccation Related Protein
KvDSM 1-29 39.04 ± 8.2 Flavin-containing monooxygenase FMO
KvDSM 9-20 39.84 ± 3.1 Nitrogenase molybdenum-iron protein beta chain (nifK)
KvDSM 9-31 48.14 ± 2.2 TraL conjugation Plasmid pSG1
KvDSM 9-45 53.24 ± 4.8 Acetyltransferase gnat family
KvDSM 12-43 21.86 ± 5.9 Dihydroorotase
KvDSM 12-53 42.82 ± 6.1 Putative secretion ATPase
KvDSM 12-93 6.62 ± 5.1 Putative secretion ATPase
KvDSM 17-36 37.69 ± 8.9 Dihydroorotase
KvDSM 17-87 45.93 ± 0.9 Exported solute-binding protein
KvDSM 17-98 37.23 ± 10.2 Exported solute-binding protein
KvDSM 6 0 ± 0.5 BetR domain protein
KvDSM 15 56.06 ± 15.2 Conserved domain protein
KvDSM 18 51.54 ± 8.3 CadC operon activator
KvDSM 21 44.39 ± 5.6 Arabinose operon regulatory protein
K. variicola T29A (wild type) 68.48 ± 9.3