Affiliation:
1. Biophysics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Abstract
Certain group VIIIB transition metal compounds were found to inhibit cell division in
Escherichia coli
, causing marked filamentous growth. Gram-negative bacilli were the most sensitive to this effect, whereas gram-positive bacilli responded only at near-toxic levels of the metal. None of the cocci tested showed any apparent effect. Cytokinesis (cross-septation) can be initiated by removal or decrease of platinum, but not by treatment with pantoyl lactone, divalent cations, or a temperature of 42 C.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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