scholarly journals Dependence of Single-Stranded DNA Length on Stage of Growth Cycle in Escherichia coli B/r and Effect of Irradiation

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 798-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Lehnert ◽  
Harold Moroson
Author(s):  
Manfred E. Bayer

Bacterial viruses adsorb specifically to receptors on the host cell surface. Although the chemical composition of some of the cell wall receptors for bacteriophages of the T-series has been described and the number of receptor sites has been estimated to be 150 to 300 per E. coli cell, the localization of the sites on the bacterial wall has been unknown.When logarithmically growing cells of E. coli are transferred into a medium containing 20% sucrose, the cells plasmolize: the protoplast shrinks and becomes separated from the somewhat rigid cell wall. When these cells are fixed in 8% Formaldehyde, post-fixed in OsO4/uranyl acetate, embedded in Vestopal W, then cut in an ultramicrotome and observed with the electron microscope, the separation of protoplast and wall becomes clearly visible, (Fig. 1, 2). At a number of locations however, the protoplasmic membrane adheres to the wall even under the considerable pull of the shrinking protoplast. Thus numerous connecting bridges are maintained between protoplast and cell wall. Estimations of the total number of such wall/membrane associations yield a number of about 300 per cell.


1966 ◽  
Vol 241 (13) ◽  
pp. 3090-3096
Author(s):  
Sally E. Jorgensen ◽  
James F. Koerner

1970 ◽  
Vol 245 (14) ◽  
pp. 3708-3715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P.K. Ho ◽  
Elizabeth B. Milikin ◽  
Jesse L. Bobbitt ◽  
Edward L. Grinnan ◽  
Philip J. Burck ◽  
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