EFFECT OF PURIFIED ENZYMES ON VIRUSES AND GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
Open Access
- 1 July 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 64 (1) , 19-28
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.64.1.19
Abstract
Evidence is presented that some viruses behave like proteins in that they are inactivated by proteolytic enzymes, whereas others prove more or less resistant. Ten strains of living Gram-negative bacteria resisted the action of purified trypsin and chymotrypsin, while the killed organisms were rapidly digested. Gram-positive bacteria, on the other hand, were resistant whether living or dead. The findings are discussed.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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