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At concentrations not inhibitory to growth, the antibiotics chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline inhibited induction of lysine decarboxylase in proliferating cells of Escherichia coli. Induction of this enzyme in resting cells was readily inhibited by chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline and chloramphenicol. Penicillin and streptomycin were indifferent while bacitracin and neomycin enhanced induction of lysine decarboxylase in resting cells of this bacterium.
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