“…to differentially grown bacteria, we sought to aggregate these data into a cumulative metric of similarity among MHB-, BHI-, and M-grown bacteria. We turned to PCA, a mainstay of systems biology which is used to uncover complex patterns within large data sets (12,19,32,39). For this analysis, we only considered data for which we had sufficient matched replicates (IglB, IglC, KatG, MglB, FsaP, TNF-␣, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, and nitrite levels in wild-type F. tularensis LVS grown in MHB and BHI and in M-grown, extracellular bacteria).…”