Mechanism of staphylococcin formation
Ivanov, N.A.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 7: 118-120
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 696090 Document Number: 133749
The author studied the optic density and the viable cell count in 2 strains of bacteriocinogenic staphylococci and their variants in which the bacteriocinogenicity factor was eliminated. Latent phase was prolonged in strains devoid of bacteriocinogenic factor; it was practically absent in bacteriocinogenic cultures. Bacteriocin production began on the 60th minute and this was accompanied by the death of cells and their lysosomes. With further culture growth bacteriocin formed in jerks and this was accompanied by the death of cells and their lysosomes.