Acquisition of polyamines by the obligate intracytoplasmic bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii.

doi:10.1128/jb.172.10.5690-5696.1990

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Acquisition of polyamines by the obligate intracytoplasmic bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 1990

Speed R R, Winkler H H

Abstract excerpt

Both the polyamine content and the route of acquisition of polyamines by Rickettsia prowazekii, an obligate intracellular parasitic bacterium, were determined. The rickettsiae grew normally in an ornithine decarboxylase mutant of the Chinese hamster ovary (C55.7) cell line whether or not putresci...

Topics

Animals
Biological Transport
Carboxy-Lyases
Cell Line
Cytoplasm
Mutation
Ornithine Decarboxylase
Polyamines
Putrescine
Rickettsia prowazekii
Spermidine
Spermine

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