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Abstract
Growth of Stapylococcus aureus in various ionic surface-active agents resulted in loss of the ability to produce penicillinase, whereas growth in nonionic surface-active agents had no effect on penicillinase production. The curing effect of various alkyl sulfates was found to be dependent upon the chain length. Curing by surface-active agents could be inhibited by magnesium. Reciprocal transduction experiments showed that curing by a surface-active agent was a property of the plasmid, not of the bacterial strain in which the plasmic resides.Entities:
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Year: 1972 PMID: 4204903 PMCID: PMC251251 DOI: 10.1128/jb.111.1.152-155.1972
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490