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Various auxotrophs are recovered from a penicillin enrichment cycle with differing efficiencies. Reconstruction experiments indicate that, under starvation conditions in the presence of penicillin, most auxotrophs undergo some death, whereas prolineless mutants are virtually immune to penicillin-induced killing.
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Rossi et al. (1971) studied this question.
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