Facultatively Parasitic Strain of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus1
AUTOR(ES)
Diedrich, D. L.
RESUMO
A strain of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (designated strain UKi2) was isolated which was capable of growing either saprophytically in host-free medium or endoparasitically in Escherichia coli B/r. It was quantitatively determined that each bdellovibrio could develop in solid medium to produce a colony, and 65% of the cells in a late exponential-phase culture were capable of inducing E. coli B/r spheroplasts. A photomicrographic sequence of single E. coli spheroplasts containing bdellovibrios demonstrated that parasitically derived B. bacteriovorus UKi2 could develop saprophytically after release from the host cells. Strain UKi2 appears to be morphologically quite similar to previously described obligately parasitic bdellovibrios; biochemical data on this strain suggests its close relationship to some of the previously described host-independent strains of Bdellovibrio.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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