Antibiotic persistence: The power of being a diploid.
2021
Summary In a new paper in this issue, Murawski and Brynildsen define chromosomal ploidy as an important characteristic for persistence following fluoroquinolone treatment. Bacteria carrying two chromosomes are more likely to repair DNA damage through homologous recombination compared with cells containing a single chromosome.
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