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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Evol. 2018 Jan 22;86(2):103–110. doi: 10.1007/s00239-018-9830-3

Table 3.

Knockout strains with increased sensitivity to metal toxicity

Gene KO Toxin WT MIC (mM) KO MIC (mM)
yqiA CoCl2 1.0 0.8
pnp CuCl2 1.8 1.4
hdfR CdCl2 0.5 0.4

Each KEIO knockout strain has a kanamycin cassette inserted into the ORF whose function it knocks out. Listed here are the KO strains, the toxin, and the WT and KO MIC. (MIC measurements were reproduced in triplicate.)