anything that kills bacteria but not yeast?
Marci Swede
ms5h+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Sep 9 09:46:24 EST 1993
>How about antibiotics? Penicillin, Streptmycin, etc have anti-bacto activities
>depending on the bacto cell wall composition. I presume that the yeast
>(eukaryotes) does not have any cell wall, but a bi-layer lipid cellular
>membrane (am I right?) which should not be affected. Pen/Str are commonly used
>in animal tissue (cell) culture to prevent bacto...
yeast have a cell wall that requires enzymatic removal (zymolase).
Yeast is closer to a plant, in many respects, than to an animal cell.
Yeast have a lipid-bilayer as well :0)
Marci
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