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MUCH of the published data regarding the mode of action of penicillin is necessarily concerned with secondary effects on bacteria, for example, rate of killing under different conditions, morphological changes, etc. By use of radioactive penicillin, it should be possible to find out directly something of the nature of the primary reaction between penicillin and the cell.
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Rowley, D., Miller, J., Rowlands, S., and Lester-Smith, E., Nature., 161, 1009 (1948).
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COOPER, P., ROWLEY, D. Investigations with Radioactive Penicillin. Nature 163, 480–481 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163480b0
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