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Action of Lysozyme on Penicillin-Induced Filaments of Proteus vulgaris

Institut de Bactériologie, Virologie et Immunologie Générale, U.E.R. de Médecine, 67000 Strasbourg, France

ABSTRACT

Penicillin-induced filaments of Proteus vulgaris P 18 had a seemingly unaltered cell envelope. Lysozyme, however, reduced the wall part of these filaments into a three-layered structure and caused transformation into spheroplasts. Although cross walls and membrane septa were absent in the filaments, most of the lysozyme-induced spheroplasts remained attached to each other.