Escherichia coli: Strains That Excrete an Inhibitor of Colicin B
Sonia K. Guterman 1 and
S. E. Luria 1
1 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Mutants exb of Escherichia coli are insensitive to colicin B and excrete into their culture media a material that inhibits colicin activity and that appears to be the bacterial lipopolysaccharide.