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Biological effects of lipoteichoic acids.

Journal of bacteriology ·Vol. 124 ·No. 2 ·1975-11-00 ·Pages 1023-7

Holtje JV, Tomasz A

Abstract

Pneumococcal lipoteichoic acid (Forssman antigen) added to the medium of growing pneumococcal cultures caused chain formation, prevented culture lysis in the stationary phase of growth, and inhibited lysis by penicillin and by the pneumococcal bacteriophage Dp-1.

MeSH Terms

Bacteriolysis/drug effects Bacteriophages/growth & development Cell Division/drug effects Forssman Antigen Lysogeny/drug effects Penicillins/pharmacology Streptococcus pneumoniae/cytology,drug effects Teichoic Acids/pharmacology

Chemicals

Penicillins Teichoic Acids Forssman Antigen

Authors & Affiliations

2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Holtje J V

Tomasz A

References (4)

4 references, click to expand

Lipoteichoic acid: a specific inhibitor of autolysin activity in Pneumococcus.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1975 May;72(5):1690-4 PMID: 239401
The reliability of molecular weight determinations by dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
J Biol Chem. 1969 Aug 25;244(16):4406-12 PMID: 5806584
On the physiological functions of teichoic acids.
J Supramol Struct. 1975;3(1):1-16 PMID: 239275
"Diplophage": a bacteriophage of Diplococcus pneumoniae.
Virology. 1975 Feb;63(2):577-82 PMID: 234654

Article Info

Journal

Journal of bacteriology

Abbr.

J Bacteriol

ISSN

0021-9193

DOI

10.1128/jb.124.2.1023-1027.1975

Published

1975-11-00

Pages

1023-7

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

2985120R

PMCID

PMC235993

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/jb.124.2.1023-1027.1975 PMC Full Text View journal details

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