1 2 Non - classical protein secretion of Bacillus subtilis in the stationary phase is 3 not due to cell lysis 4 5 6 7

Revised JB5897-11 1 2 Non-classical protein secretion of Bacillus subtilis in the stationary phase is 3 not due to cell lysis 4 5 6 7 Chun-Kai Yang, Hosam E. Ewis, XiaoZhou Zhang, Chung-Dar Lu, Hae-Jin Hu, Yi 8 Pan, Ahmed T. Abdelal, and Phang C. Tai* 9 10 Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303 11 Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlatna, GA, 30303 12 13 14 15 16 17 Running Title: Non-classical protein secretion of Bacillus subtilis 18 19 20 21 ‡ These authors contributed equally to this work 22 * Corresponding author. 23 Mailing address: Department of Biology, Georgia State University, 161 Jesse Hill Drive, Atlanta, 24 Georgia, 30303. 25 Phone: 404-413-5303 26 Fax: 404-413-5301 27 Email: [email protected] 28 29 30 1 Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of 31 Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205 32 2 Current address: Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 33 and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 34 3 Current address: School of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, 137-707 35 4 Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 36 01854 37 38 39 Copyright © 2011, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.05897-11 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 19 August 2011