The Staphylococcus aureus WKZ-1 and WKZ-2 strains,10 (link) which are isogenic except for SCCmec type IV, were used in this study. These bacterial strains were obtained through BEI Resources. Both bacterial strains were grown aerobically at 37 °C on 100 mL of tryptic soy broth (Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) with shaking at 250 rpm. First, we conducted an minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test for oxacillin (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) using the broth microdilution method.11 (link) The MIC values for S. aureus WKZ-1 and WKZ-2 were determined to be 1 mg L−1 and 64 mg L−1, respectively, and we treated with oxacillin equal to 0.5 of the MIC as subinhibitory concentration. oxacillin was treated at the mid-exponential growth phase, and proteome and metabolome sample preparation were performed after 1 h 30 min.