Isolation and Characterization of Cell Wall-Defective Variants of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis
AUTOR(ES)
Wyrick, Priscilla B.
RESUMO
Quantitative mass conversion of intact bacterial cells of Bacillus subtilis and B. licheniformis to L-phase variants has been effected after lysozyme treatment. After subculture of the unstable L-phase variants for several months in the presence of methicillin, stable L-phase variants were obtained which grew in the absence of the antibiotic and were then unable to revert to the classical bacterial phase under conditions which gave rise to mass reversion of the protoplasts and unstable L-variants. These stable L-phase variants, which retained many of the physiological properties of the bacterium from which they were derived, were capable of growing exponentially and multiplying in liquid medium. Their morphology and apparent modes of reproduction were consistent with that described for other L-phase variants. The morphological events, as monitored by the electron microscope, of the reversion to the intact bacterial phase of an unstable L-phase variant of B. licheniformis are described.
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