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As a consequence of the brilliant studies of Stacey and co-workers, reviewed by Webb1, many investigators of the Gram reaction in bacteria are agreed that the Gram complex is a combination of basic dye and pentose nucleoprotein, apparently localized at or in the cell wall. However, as Lison2 has pointed out, the problem of localization in cytochemistry is a difficult one, and it is not altogether certain that the basophilic component of the Gram complex normally occurs at the cell wall.
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HOFFMAN, H. Localization of Bacterial Nucleic Acids and Mechanism of the Gram Reaction. Nature 168, 464 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168464a0
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