Kinetics of lethal adsorption of colicin E-2 by Escherichia coli.
The kinetics of lethal adsorption of colicin E2 by Escherichia coli C6 were studied by means of survivor plots. These were determined by a method which allowed rapid sampling of the reaction mixture and estimation of approximate confidence limits for the plotted data. The results were consistent with the predictions of a hypothetical model that assumed a single-hit mechanism of colicin action upon a bacterial population whose cells varied in their number of specific (lethal) receptors for colicin. The possibility of nonlethal adsorption is discussed.
D000327:Adsorption; D003087:Colicins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012760:Shigella / Q000378:metabolism; D013223:Statistics as Topic
D003087:Colicins