Ability of cecropin B to penetrate the enterobacterial outer membrane.

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The cationic amphipathic insect peptide cecropin B was almost as active on wild-type enteric bacteria as it was on their lipopolysaccharide and lipid A mutants that have very defective outer membrane. The polymyxin-resistant strains, which elaborate altered, less anionic lipopolysaccharide, were completely susceptible to cecropin B. No synergism was found between cecropin B and hydrophobic antibiotics. Throughout...

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