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ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli
SUBMITTER: Yanqin Yang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-7243 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20070409 6
When a bactericidal antibiotic is added to a growing bacterial culture, the great majority of the bacterial population is killed but a small number of metabolically quiescent bacteria called persisters survive antibiotic treatment. The mechanism of this bacterial persistence is poorly understood. In Escherichia coli, we identified a new persistence gene, phoU, whose inactivation leads to a generalized higher susceptibility than that of the parent strain to a diverse range of antibiotics, includi ...[more]