Heat shock proteins do not influence wet heat resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores.
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Spores of Bacillus subtilis are significantly more resistant to wet heat than are their vegetative cell counterparts. Analysis of the effects of mutations in and the expression of fusions of a coding gene for a thermostable beta-galactosidase to a number of heat shock genes has shown that heat shock proteins play no significant role in the wet heat resistance of B. subtilis spores.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of bacteriology
دوره 183 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001