Orlén Hanna, Hughes Diarmaid
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2006 Oct;50(10):3454-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00783-06.
Weak mutators are common among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli. We show that the relative mutation rate and the "evolvability of fluoroquinolone resistance" are related by a power law slope of 1.2 over 3 orders of magnitude. Thus, even weak mutators can drive the evolution of fluoroquinolone resistance under selection pressure.
弱突变体在大肠杆菌临床分离株中很常见。我们发现,相对突变率与“氟喹诺酮耐药性的进化能力”在3个数量级上呈幂律斜率为1.2的关系。因此,即使是弱突变体在选择压力下也能推动氟喹诺酮耐药性的进化。