The Nature of the Catalase Reaction in the Residue of Staphylococcus aureus Lysed by Bacteriophage
Abstract
Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ F. LYLE WYND2 AND J. BRONFENBRENNER Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Loui8, Missouri Downloaded from http://jb.asm.org/ on December 9, 2011 by deepdyve Received for publication May 29, 1939 There is considerable interest in the problem of the possible respiration of active bacteriophage particles because of the bearing that its solution would have in establishing the living or non-living nature of this virus-like agent. Bronfenbrenner (1924, 1926 a and b), employing an indicator method sensitive to 0.02 milligram of carbon dioxide, was unable to detect carbon dioxide production by phage particles in experiments extending over several hours. Wohfeil (1928) also was unable to detect carbon dioxide production by the phage particles and Bachmann and Wohlfeil (1927) could detect neither carbon dioxide elimination nor oxygen use by phage particles, in the presence of dead cells of sensitive strains. McKinley and Coulter (1927) detected a slight increase in the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a strain of Escherichia coli grown in the presence of