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. 2017 Jun 16;83(13):e00080-17. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00080-17

TABLE 2.

β-Lactam antibiotic resistance assaya

E. coli strain MIC (μg/ml)
PENG AMP AMO CAR CEF CEFD
Origami 2(DE3)/pET-28b 16 8 8 8 <8 8
Origami 2(DE3)/pMQ28 64 16 64 16 128 128
a

PENG, penicillin G; AMP, ampicillin; AMO, amoxicillin; CAR, carbenicillin; CEF, cephalexin; CEFD cefadroxil. The tested concentrations of antibiotics were 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and 512 μg/ml. The plasmid pMQ28 contains the cloned macQ gene, and the plasmid pET-28b is an empty vector control.