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Effects of acriflavine on the transfer of episomes and bacterial chromosome in Escherichia coli K-12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Toshihiko Arai  and
Tsutomu Watanabe
Toshihiko Arai
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Tsutomu Watanabe
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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The effects of acriflavine on the transfer of various episomes and of the bacterial chromosome were studied using acriflavine-sensitive and -resistant strains of E. coli K-12 as donors and recipients. It was found that the inhibition of transfer of these elements by acriflavine was only slight when donor bacteria were resistant to this acridine dye, regardless of whether the recipient bacteria were acriflavine-sensitive or -resistant. This result seems to support the view that acriflavine inhibits the replication of these elements in donor bacteria which is considered essential for their transfer. With colicinogenic factors, in contrast to F and R, the results were affected by the sensitivity or resistance of the recipient and were in support of the killing by acriflavine of the cells which received the colicinogenic factors.

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Genetics Research , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , December 1967 , pp. 241 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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