Effect of amino acid deprivation and chloramphenicol treatment on cell sizes of rel+ and relA- strains of Escherichia coli.

Autor: Ishiguro EE, Ramey WD
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Canadian journal of microbiology [Can J Microbiol] 1978 Jun; Vol. 24 (6), pp. 761-4.
DOI: 10.1139/m78-127
Abstrakt: The effects of inhibition of protein synthesis on the cell size distributions of rel+ and relA- derivatives of Escherichia coli K-12 were determined. Amino acid deprivation resulted in a reduction in the cell sizes of rel+ strains but not of relA- strains. Treatment with chloramphenicol (CAM) did not alter the size distributions of either rel+ or relA- strains except when they were rel+ dap-. CAM treatment of rel+ dap- strains resulted in an increase in cell size. It is proposed that these results reflect differences in the structures of the cell envelopes of rel+ and relA- bacteria.
Databáze: MEDLINE