Disruption of Wall-less Bacteria by Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Toxins
- 1 May 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 91 (5), 1677-+
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.91.5.1677-1680.1966
Abstract
Earlier studies demonstrating that staphylococcal [alpha]-toxin and strepto-lysin-S have the capacity to lyse protoplasts and spheroplasts of certain species of bacteria and Mycoplasma have been extended to encompass additional kinds of wall-less bacteria including L-forms. It is suggested that sensitivity to staphylococcal [alpha]-toxin and streptolysin-S may be explicable in terms of specific phospholipid composition of cell membranes, whereas sensitivity to streptolysin-0 is dependent upon the presence in cell membranes of cholesterol. The results suggest that streptolysin-O might prove to be a useful reagent for differentiating L forms from parasitic pleuropneumonia-like organisms.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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