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Hirokawa, Hideo (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan). Properties of rod cells reversed from penicillin spheroplasts in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 91:125–128. 1966.—Spheroplasts of Escherichia coli B-054 were formed by penicillin, and the properties of rod cells reversed from the spheroplasts were examined. It was found that the rod cells were not capable of forming colonies when placed in a minimal medium immediately after the reversion, the postaddition of the nutrient to this medium being without effect. In this respect, the so-called residual cells which did not convert to spheroplasts by penicillin treatment behaved just as the reversed rod cells. These two types of cells, the reversed and residual rod cells, however, could grow up to form colonies when they were cultivated in a complex medium immediately after the reversion. The nutrient requirement and penicillin sensitivity of the progeny of these cells were found to be quite similar to those of the original untreated cells. Accordingly, it was concluded that the nutritional defect induced by penicillin treatment was not a hereditary change.
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