Permeability changes associated with osmotic swelling of bacterial protoplasts
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Permeability changes associated with osmotic swelling of bacterial protoplasts.
Bacterial protoplasts, released from confinement within the rigid wall of whole cells, imbibe water, swell, and burst unless their suspending medium contains high concentrations of solutes which have difficulty crossing the osmotic barrier in the protoplast surface membrane (C. Weibull, Exptl. Cell Res. 9:139, 1955; P. Mitchell and J. Moyle, J. Gen. Microbiol. 20:434, 1959). Hence, protoplast p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.93.3.1177-1178.1967