Abstract
The effects of cold-shock on the resistance of plasmid-free and plasmid-carrying Escherichia coli to acrylate and copper ions have been tested. Such shock, produced by transfer from 37 to 5 degrees C, with 60 min incubation at the lower temperature, significantly enhanced the resistance of all the tested strains to both inhibitors. Such resistances may have arisen because the inhibitory agents are less able, due to porin changes, to penetrate into the organisms after cold-shock. It is more likely, however, that inhibitor penetration is unaffected but that cold-shocked organisms are better able to repair the damage caused (e.g. to membranes, DNA or cellular enzymes) by the inhibitors.
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