Unstable Escherichia coli L Forms Revisited: Growth Requires Peptidoglycan Synthesis
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Unstable Escherichia coli L forms revisited: growth requires peptidoglycan synthesis.
Growing bacterial L forms are reputed to lack peptidoglycan, although cell division is normally inseparable from septal peptidoglycan synthesis. To explore which cell division functions L forms use, we established a protocol for quantitatively converting a culture of a wild-type Escherichia coli K-12 strain overnight to a growing L-form-like state by use of the beta-lactam cefsulodin, a specifi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.00273-07