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[Effect of phenobarbital on the luminescence system of luminous bacteria].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Vysotskiĭ E S, Zavoruev V V, Mezhevikin V V
Abstract excerpt
The effect of phenobarbital on the luminescent system of Beneckea harveyi was studied. The inhibition of luminescence with phenobarbital was shown to be due to a disorder in the synthesis of an aldehyde factor, the endogenous substrate of bacterial luciferase. Upon the action of phenobarbital, the bacterium acquires the properties of "aldehyde" mutants, i. e. their luminescence is stimulated with exogenous decyl...
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