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Abstract

Summary: Some unsaturated fatty acids were found to inhibit the growth of . Their effectiveness was related both to the degree of unsaturation and to the configuration of the molecule about the double bonds. Both linoleic acid and linolenic acid increased the proportion of plasmid-negative bacteria in a growing culture of bacteria containing a penicillinase plasmid. This was not due to a curing effect of the fatty acids but was the result of greater sensitivity of the growth of bacteria containing penicillinase plasmid to inhibition by the unsaturated fatty acids. The presence of a plasmid conferring resistance to tetracycline, however, did not make the bacterium more sensitive to inhibition by linoleic or linolenic acids.

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