MacAlister TJ, Costerton JW, Thompson L, Thompson J, Ingram JM. Distribution of alkaline phosphatase within the periplasmic space of gram-negative bacteria.
J Bacteriol 1972;
111:827-32. [PMID:
4559833 PMCID:
PMC251360 DOI:
10.1128/jb.111.3.827-832.1972]
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Abstract
Both reaction-product localization and ferritin-coupled antibody studies have shown that alkaline phosphatase is evenly distributed throughout the peri-plasmic space of Escherichia coli and a marine pseudomonad. This space is not locally enlarged except in cases where plasmolysis has occurred.
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