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Unstable Escherichia coli L forms revisited: growth requires peptidoglycan synthesis.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2007

Joseleau-Petit Danièle, Liébart Jean-Claude, Ayala Juan A, D'Ari Richard

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Growing bacterial L forms are reputed to lack peptidoglycan, although cell division is normally inseparable from septal peptidoglycan synthesis. To explore which cell division functions L forms use, we established a protocol for quantitatively converting a culture of a wild-type Escherichia coli K-12 strain overnight to a growing L-form-like state by use of the beta-lactam cefsulodin, a specific inhibitor of...

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PMID: 17586646
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00273-07
PMCID: PMC2045188

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