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J Bacteriol 1963 Jun 01;85:1185-93. doi: 10.1128/jb.85.6.1185-1193.1963.
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STAPHYLOCOCCAL SENSITIZATION: SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PHAGE K ON THE BACTERIAL CELL WALL IN LYSIS-FROM-WITHOUT.

RALSTON DJ .


Abstract
Ralston, Doris J. (University of California, Berkeley). Staphylococcal sensitization: specific biological effects of phage K on the bacterial cell wall in lysis-from-without. J. Bacteriol. 85:1185-1193. 1963.-Phage K, shown previously to sensitize staphylococcal-wall mucopeptide to the action of a phage-induced enzyme, virolysin, was found to act in a specific manner in that its sensitizing effects were restricted to chemical linkages affected by three staphylococcal lysins. These caused an immediate lysis, whereas egg-white lysozyme, which could also digest the wall mucopeptide, exerted variable effects, even when in the absence of phage it produced some lysis. Evidence was presented that the K(1) normal cell autolysin and the K phage virolysin could act synergistically with lysozyme on phage-sensitized cells, and that any effects observed with lysozyme were due to the simultaneous presence of trace amounts of these staphylococcal lysins. None of a series of lysozymelike agents from sea urchins, marine sepunculids, and from rabbit peritoneal histiocytes caused accelerated lysis of phage-sensitized cells, although like lysozyme they showed a slow lysis of phage-free living cells. Other enzymes which did not reduce the turbidity of sensitized cells included agents specific for intracellular components (proteins, lipids, nucleic acids), and enzymes, as decarboxylase, alkaline phosphatase, d-amino oxidase, and hyaluronidase. These results suggested that the main effects of the phage in sensitization were limited to areas of the cell wall involved in protection against the action of the staphylococcal lysins.

PubMed ID: 14047206
PMC ID: PMC278317
Article link: J Bacteriol


Genes referenced: LOC100887844 LOC115919910 LOC115919911 LOC115924575 LOC590297

References [+] :
JANCZURA, Teichuronic acid: a mucopolysaccharide present in wall preparations from vegetative cells of Bacillus subtilis. 1961, Pubmed