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VINTER1–4 showed that the coat fractions of bacterial spores contain a high concentration of cystine disulphide bonds. Spore coats also contain a protein component5,6 with which cystine could be associated. We have therefore subjected spores to reagents known to rupture protein disulphide bonds, and have investigated the results of these treatments.
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GOULD, G., HITCHINS, A. Sensitization of Bacterial Spores to Lysozyme and Hydrogen Peroxide with Reagents which Rupture Disuphide Bonds. Nature 197, 622 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197622a0
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