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Growth of Streptococcus mutans protoplasts is not inhibited by penicillin.

A method is described in which cells of Streptococcus mutans BHT can be converted to spherical, osmotically fragile protoplasts. Exponential-phase cells were suspended in a solution containing 0.5 M melezitose, and their cell walls were hydrolyzed with mutanolysin (M-1 enzyme). When the resultant pr...

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Main Authors: Parks, L C, Shockman, G D, Higgins, M L
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1980
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC294542/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6997274
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