Enzymic lysis of bacterial cell

Bacterial lysis by lysozyme.

Observations were made on cultures obtained from three different sources: one (C) maintained for many years in this laboratory, another (4698) received from the American Type Culture Collection, and a third (F) received recently from Dr. Fleming. To our knowledge all derive from the original organism isolated by Fleming (1922). For purposes of convenience each will be designated as a separate "...

Bacterial Lysis of Microalgal Cells

This short communication reports a pioneering research of using bacteria for simultaneous algal cell disruption and cell wall/membrane utilization. Microalgae are regarded as one of the most promising feedstock that can potentially address the twin challenges of energy security and environmental protection due to their fast growth rate, high lipid content and CO2 biofixation capabilities. Howev...

Molecular control of bacterial death and lysis.

Although the phenomenon of bacterial cell death and lysis has been studied for over 100 years, the contribution of these important processes to bacterial physiology and development has only recently been recognized. Contemporary study of cell death and lysis in a number of different bacteria has revealed that these processes, once thought of as being passive and unregulated, are actually govern...

Bacterial lysis by phage--a theoretical model.

The similarity to materials corrosion is invoked to develop a model for phage-infected bacterial lysis based on the statistics of extremes. The importance of cell size, envelope thickness and lysozyme eclipse time on the final probability distribution of lysis is considered. Experiments are suggested to test the model.

The Chemical Characterization and Enzymic Synthesis of a Bacterial Glycolipid.