Something living on colchicine!

[Chris Boyd]

David Grant (dgrant at iastate.edu) wrote:
: I once found something (probably bacteria) growing in my 20% SDS in ddH2O

E. coli grows quite well in L broth + 20% SDS.  In fact, you can
use this to cure it of (some) plasmids -- a sort of E. colonic
irrigation:

  author =       "M. Tomoeda and M. Inuzuka and N. Kubo and S.  
                 Nakamura",
  title =        "{Effective elimination of drug resistance and sex
                 factors in {\it Escherichia coli} by sodium dodecyl
                 sulphate}",
  journal =      "J. Bacteriol.",
  volume =       "95",
  pages =        "1078--1089",
  year =         "1968",

I tried this once, but it wasn't as good as acridine orange curing.

Best wishes,
--
Chris Boyd                       | from, | MRC Human Genetics Unit
chrisb at hgu.mrc.ac.uk             |  not  |  Western General Hospital
http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/~chrisb |   for |   Edinburgh EH4 2XU, SCOTLAND