spheroplast การใช้
- If cell wall is completely lost, the bacterium is referred as a protoplast if penicillin was used on gram-positive bacteria, and spheroplast when used on gram-negative bacteria.
- However, he was unable to isolate the pathogen most likely because " M . paratuberculosis " sheds its cellular wall in humans and takes the form of a spheroplast, making it virtually undetectable under an optical microscope.
- Recently, it has been extended to study other heterologously expressed ion channels and it has been shown that the giant " E . coli " spheroplast can be used as an ion-channel expression system comparable to the Xenopus oocyte.