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In bacteria, undecaprenyl pyrophosphate is absolutely required for the formation of cell wall peptidoglycan and other cell surface structures, while ubiquinones and menaquinones, both containing an essential prenyl moiety, are key electron carriers in respiratory energy generation. There is scant knowledge on the nature and regulation of bacterial isoprenoid pathways. In order to explore the cellular responses to perturbations in the mevalonate pathway, responsible for producing the isoprenoid precursor IPP in many gram-positive bacteria and eukaryotes, we constructed three strains of<jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic>in which each of the mevalonate pathway genes is regulated by an IPTG (isopropyl-\u03b2-<jats:sc>d<\/jats:sc>-thiogalactopyranoside)-inducible promoter. 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