- A
spheroplast (or
sphaeroplast in
British usage) is a
microbial cell from
which the cell wall has been
almost completely removed, as by the
action of...
-
enzymatic means.
Protoplasts differ from
spheroplasts in that
their cell wall has been
completely removed.
Spheroplasts retain part of
their cell wall. In the...
- if
penicillin was used on gram-negative bacteria, then it is
called a
spheroplast.
Cytolysis occurs when a cell
bursts due to an
osmotic imbalance that...
- cell walls. Two
types of L-forms are distinguished:
unstable L-forms,
spheroplasts that are
capable of dividing, but can
revert to the
original morphology...
-
applied to the
study of
bacterial ion
channels in
specially prepared giant spheroplasts.
Patch clamping can be
performed using the
voltage clamp technique. In...
- and
divide in the
presence of β-lactam
antibiotics (right) fail to do so, and
instead shed
their cell walls,
forming osmotically fragile spheroplasts....
- Gram-negative
bacteria do not lose
their cell
walls completely and are
called spheroplasts after treatment with penicillin.
Penicillin shows a
synergistic effect...
-
example filamentation,
pseudomulticellular forms,
lesions leading to
spheroplast formation, and
eventual cell
death and lysis. PBPs have been
shown to...
-
Caenispirillum deserti is a Gram-negative, Vibrio-shaped, aerobic,
spheroplast-forming and
motile bacterium from the
genus of
Caenispirillum which has...
-
periplasm while the
inner membrane remains sealed as
vesicles called the
spheroplast. For example, E. coli can be
lysed using lysozyme to free the contents...
