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. 1965 Apr;89(4):931–936. doi: 10.1128/jb.89.4.931-936.1965

Effect of Heat and Plating Medium on Survival of Escherichia coli after Treatment with Radiomimetic Chemicals

Antonio Zampieri 1, Joseph Greenberg 1
PMCID: PMC277574  PMID: 14276117

Abstract

Zampieri, Antonio (Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif.), and Joseph Greenberg. Effect of heat and plating medium on survival of Escherichia coli after treatment with radiomimetic chemicals. J. Bacteriol. 89:931–936. 1965.—Survival of Escherichia coli strain S and its radioresistant mutant R4 after treatment with mitomycin C, azaserine, nitrogen mustard, 1-methyl-3-nitro-1-nitrosoguanidine, nitrofurazone, and proflavine was studied. With all agents except proflavine, R4 was more resistant than was S. Survival of strain S was greater on minimal glucose-salts medium than on Penassay (Difco), and greater on the latter than on Tryptone (Difco) agar; survival of S was greater when posttreatment incubation temperature was 45 C than when it was 37 C. Post-treatment plating medium or temperature had no effect on survival of R4. Visible light did not affect survival of S or R4. The survival curves of R4 were exponential; those of S exhibited decreasing sensitivity with time of exposure. With proflavine, photoactivation by visible light was demonstrable, but there was no difference in survival between S and R4. Survival of either strain was not affected by post-treatment plating medium or incubation temperature.

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