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. 1971 May;106(2):297–300. doi: 10.1128/jb.106.2.297-300.1971

Differential Recovery of Auxotrophs After Penicillin Enrichment in Escherichia coli

John J Rossi 1, Claire M Berg 1
PMCID: PMC285095  PMID: 4929854

Abstract

Various auxotrophs are recovered from a penicillin enrichment cycle with differing efficiencies. Reconstruction experiments indicate that, under starvation conditions in the presence of penicillin, most auxotrophs undergo some death, whereas prolineless mutants are virtually immune to penicillin-induced killing.

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