Antibiotic also induces another transformation pathway

My experiment shows that antibiotic can induce the cryptic transformation. Importantly, transformation was not completely dependent on antibiotic because even antibiotic was abscent, still a few transformants were observed. This indicate the the ability of transformation is inherent and antibiotic just induce (not trigger) transformation. The addition of antibiotic can induce transformation in the rec-2 mutant about 20-fold. I was shocked. A paper published in Science reported that antibiotic can induce natural transformation in S. pneumonia. My data indicate that antibiotic can also induce the non-traditional transformation as well. Still, I do not know how antibiotic induce this cryptic transformation since we know little about it. This is a completely new area waiting for further investigation and the implication of this study is immense (read my post yesterday).