Nature of the Elimination of the Penicillinase Plasmid from Staphylococcus aureus by Surface-Active Agents
- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 111 (1), 152-5
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.111.1.152-155.1972
Abstract
Growth of Stapylococcus aureus in various ionic surface-active agents resulted in loss of the ability to produce penicillinase, whereas growth in nonionic surface-active agents had no effect on penicillinase production. The curing effect of various alkyl sulfates was found to be dependent upon the chain length. Curing by surface-active agents could be inhibited by magnesium. Reciprocal transduction experiments showed that curing by a surface-active agent was a property of the plasmid, not of the bacterial strain in which the plasmic resides.Keywords
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