Toxic ROS and General Stress Response in Bacteria Exposed to Antibiotics (IMAGE)

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Toxic ROS and General Stress Response in Bacteria Exposed to Antibiotics

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This image shows how sub-lethal doses of an antibiotic induce formation of an E. coli cell subpopulation with high levels of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS, green), which induce the general stress response (red), and an intermediate state with both high ROS and stress-response activity in the same cells (orange).

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John P Pribis

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