Penicillin-binding proteins and carboxypeptidase/transpeptidase activities in Proteus vulgaris P18 and its penicillin-induced stable L-forms
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The originally penicillin-induced, wall-less stable L-forms of Proteus vulgaris P18, isolated by Tulasne in 1949 and since then cultured in he absence of penicillin, have kept the ability to synthesize the seven penicillin-binding proteins and the various DD- and LD-peptidase activities found in the parental bacteria and known to be involved in wall peptidoglycan metabolism. The stable L-forms, however, secrete during growth both the highly penicillin-sensitive, DD-carboxy-peptidase-transpeptidase penicillin-binding protein PBP4 (which in normal bacteria is relatively loosely bound to the plasma membrane) and the penicillin-insensitive LD-carboxypeptidase (which in normal bacteria is located in the periplasmic region).
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