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Studies of colicin action on wall‐less stable L‐forms of Escherichia coli I. Degree of attachment and of killing effect on rods and stable L‐form cells
Author(s) -
Šmarda J.,
Schuhmann Edith
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
zeitschrift für allgemeine mikrobiologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0044-2208
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.19790190708
Subject(s) - colicin , escherichia coli , cytoplasm , strain (injury) , biology , cell wall , cell membrane , microbiology and biotechnology , receptor , protoplast , biophysics , cell , chemistry , biochemistry , anatomy , gene
Escherichia coli strains B and K12 W 1655 F + are able to bind more lethal units of colicins E2, E3, G, H, Ia, and K + X per one stable L‐form cell (of the protoplast type) than per one rod cell; colicin D is bound in a higher amount on E. coli B rods. This pattern remains unchanged, if the same colicins are attached on chloroform‐killed cells of both forms. Rods of both E. coli strains are more sensitive to colicins D, E2, E3, K + X (as – in the strain B – to colicin Ia) than cells of the respective L‐forms. In the strain W 1655 F + both cell forms are equally highly sensitive to colicin Ia. The stable L‐forms of both strains are much more sensitive to colicins G and H than the rods. Thus the Gram‐negative cell wall decreases the probability of a colicin molecule to get attached to its receptor in the cytoplasmic membrane. On the other hand, in E. coli cells the attachment of most colicin molecules to the wall receptors increases the probability of their biological effect. There is no such effect of the wall‐attachment on the action of colicins G or H. The strain B is tolerant to colicin E2, while being resistant to E3; thus the cytoplasmic membrane receptor sites for them are not identical.