The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 17, 499-505,
Copyright © 1934 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE REVERSIBLE INACTIVATION OF BACTERIOPHAGE BY BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY
A. P. Krueger 1 and
D. M. Baldwin 1
1 From the Department of Bacteriology, University of California, Berkeley
1. The complete inactivation of antistaphylococcal phage by HgCl2 (2.8 per cent for 216 hours) can be reversed by precipitation of Hg++ with restoration of the phage to its original titre.
2. This behavior seems more compatible with the known properties of certain enzymes than with those of living protoplasm.
Accepted on November 20, 1933