I-L. Relative fluorescence intensities (y-axis) of E. coli strains harboring the gene-specific translational reporters as in (A-D) or the corresponding M2* variant for each gene, combined with an empty control plasmid or vcdRP expression plasmids (pVcdRP and pVcdRP M2) measured using plate reader (I-K) or by Western blot analysis (L). The fluorescence of pCtrl (for each reporter fusion) was set to 1. 