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RESULTS<br />

points were sampled based on the optical density (OD) where<strong>by</strong> the mid-exponential<br />

phase sample corresponds to an OD <strong>of</strong> 0.6 (Figure 10)<br />

The LZ strains which harbor drug resistant alleles <strong>of</strong> topoisomerases, gyrase<br />

(gyrA L83 ) and topoisomerase IV (parC K84 ) <strong>gene</strong>s were treated with quinolone<br />

norfloxacin during mid-exponential growth before sampling. Norfloxacin used at sublethal<br />

concentration in LZ41 and LZ54 strains selectively inhibits DNA gyrase or<br />

topoisomerase IV activity there<strong>by</strong> inducing relaxation or hypernegative supercoiling<br />

respectively. In these strains, the cells are exposed to norfloxacin for 5 minutes and<br />

RNA is then extracted [Rochman et al., 2002]. This allows the variation <strong>of</strong> transcription<br />

with overall superhelical density to be monitored from almost fully relaxed (σ = - 0.015,<br />

strain LZ41) to near physiological (σ = - 0.073, strain LZ23) to hypernegatively<br />

supercoiled (σ = - 0.095, strain LZ54) state [Zechiedrich et al., 1997].<br />

Figure 10: Growth curves <strong>of</strong> CSH50 wild-type and the mutants.<br />

The three phases sampled for the microarray- based comparison <strong>of</strong> differential <strong>gene</strong> <strong>expression</strong>. (A)<br />

Growth curves <strong>of</strong> wild-type and fis mutant. (B) Growth curves <strong>of</strong> wild-type and hns mutant. The dots<br />

indicate the time <strong>of</strong> sampling.<br />

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