February 19, 1957

 

Dr. J. Lederberg

ISTITUTO DI GENETICA Departnuent of Genetics
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA University of Wisconsin
PAVIA ladison, Wisc.

VIA S. EPIFANIO, 14 - TEL. 23.0,29

Dear Joshua, when I was in Madison last October R.Wright
told he was studying a strain of Aerobacillus polymyxa
which was able to lysa@ata, at least in part, the ascus wall
of Saccharomycetes.

At the vresent moment I'm trying to analyze
variations in recombination frequencies between two linked
loci under different conditions. I would therefore need a
very simple technique for braking asci in mass. Liay be your
strain could be suitable for this purpose and I wrote to
Wright asking if he could send me a culture of A.polymyxa
and the uethod for isolation and/or purification of the
specific enzyme provided he is not studying the same pro-
blem.

If you will send me the strain it is obvious
I'll not publish anything of ny research on it without
your permission.

I take this opportunity to thank you for
your kind hospitality and I'm looking forward to see you
next fall in Italy.

wichael Lerner, who is spending some months
in our lab, as you probably know, wants to be remenbered
to you.

Yaur sincerely

 

 

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