Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
Abstract
Bernheimer, Alan
W. (New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.). Disruption of wall-less bacteria by streptococcal and staphylococcal toxins. J. Bacteriol.
91:
1677–1680. 1966.—Earlier studies demonstrating that staphylococcal α-toxin and streptolysin S have the capacity to lyse protoplasts and spheroplasts of certain species of bacteria and
Mycoplasma
have been extended to encompass additional kinds of wall-less bacteria including L forms. It is suggested that sensitivity to staphylococcal α-toxin and streptolysin S may be explicable in terms of specific phospholipid composition of cell membranes, whereas sensitivity to streptolysin O is dependent upon the presence in cell membranes of cholesterol. The results suggest that streptolysin O might prove to be a useful reagent for differentiating L forms from parasitic pleuropneumonia-like organisms.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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