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THE receptors of bacterial cells for colicines have not so far been studied in great detail, but there is some evidence1,2 for the assumption that the role of these receptors is to fix colicines specifically on to the bacterial surface and to enable them to have inhibitive effects like phage receptors3. Although it is generally accepted, this hypothesis has never been proved4. The main support for it came from Fredericq's later experiments, which showed a cross-resistance between certain colicines and phages. Consequently they are both supposed to be adsorbed on to common receptors. Thus colicine K should share a common receptor with the phage T6 (ref. 5), colicine M with the phages T1 and T5 (ref. 6), etc.
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ŠMARDA, J., SCHUHMANN, E. Do Certain Colicines and Phages share Common Receptors?. Nature 213, 614 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213614a0
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