Bacterial Colonies on Tetracycline Plates (IMAGE)

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Bacterial Colonies on Tetracycline Plates

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Bacterial colonies with a fluorescent reporter protein appearing on tetracycline plates over three days (left to right). Bacteria can grow and form colonies either due to single-step mutations that activate the tetracycline pump gene (dark colonies, present early on), or due to "amplifications" that increase the copy number of the gene (bright colonies), which appear over time. Amplifications, as well as some other mutation types depend on genes in the chromosomal neighborhood of the resistance gene.

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Magdalena Steinrück

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