Bacillus subtilis C3, a commercial textile dye-decolorizing and -degrading bacterium, was isolated from the common effluent treatment plant (CEPT) of the Jetpur textile dyeing and printing industrial sector situated in the district of Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Here, we present the annotated 4.18-Mb draft genome sequence of B. subtilis C3, providing information about the metabolic pathways involve...

BACKGROUND Alkaline amylase has significant potential for applications in the textile, paper and detergent industries, however, low yield of which cannot meet the requirement of industrial application. In this work, a novel ARTP mutagenesis-screening method and fermentation optimization strategies were used to significantly improve the expression level of recombinant alkaline amylase in B. subt...

The Bacillus subtilis gene (pyrB), which encodes aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase), was cloned on a HindIII restriction endonuclease fragment inserted into the pUC13 plasmid vector. B. subtilis pyrB was expressed in Escherichia coli, as judged by complementation of E. coli pyrB mutants and production of enzyme that was specifically inhibited by antibody directed against B. subtilis ATCase. Th...

Among 45 Bacillus subtilis strains isolated from non-salted types of fermented soybeans produced in several Southeast Asian countries, 20 had the insertion sequence IS4Bsu1 in the chromosome. In contrast, none of 49 B. subtilis strains of non-food origin contained IS4Bsu1. Frequent occurrence of this mobile DNA element in the soybean-fermenting B. subtilis would reflect the fact that few strain...

Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium. We present the genome sequence of an undomesticated strain, BSP1, isolated from poultry. The sequence of the BSP1 genome supports the view that B. subtilis has a biphasic lifestyle, cycling between the soil and the animal gastrointestinal tract, and it provides molecular-level insight into the adaptation of B. subtilis t...

BACKGROUND The bacterium Bacillus subtilis, which is not a natural riboflavin overproducer, has been converted into an excellent production strain by classical mutagenesis and metabolic engineering. To our knowledge, the enhancement of riboflavin excretion from the cytoplasm of overproducing cells has not yet been considered as a target for (further) strain improvement. Here we evaluate the fla...

OBJECTIVE To study the sterilizing effect and mechanism of electrolyzed-oxidizing water (EOW) and electrolyzed-reductive water (ERW) for Bacillus subtilis var. niger (ATCC9372) and Escherichia coli (8099). METHODS The generations of EOW and ERW were made in the ion membrane electrolysis cell. The sterilization manner was the suspension quantitative germicidal test. RESULTS The killing rate ...

We compared the production of poly-γ-glutamate (γ-PGA), protease and amylase, the phage type, and inheritance of the insertion sequence (IS) IS4Bsu1among 90 Bacillus subtilis strains isolated from fermented soybean foods from Southeast to East Asia with those of a B. subtilis (natto) starter strain. All the isolates produced high levels of protease but various levels of amylase. None of them be...

Bacillus subtilis contains urease structural genes but lacks the accessory genes typically required for GTP-dependent incorporation of nickel. Nevertheless, B. subtilis was shown to possess a functional urease, and the recombinant enzyme conferred low levels of nickel-dependent activity to Escherichia coli. Additional investigations of the system lead to the suggestion that B. subtilis may use ...

I. Cordycepin monophosphate has been shown to inhibit the activity of phosphoribosyl-pyrophosphate amidotransferase (ribosylamine-5-phosphate:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase (ghitamate-amidating), EC 2.4.2.14) obtained from both pigeon liver and Bacillus subtilis. 2. Evidence is presented for the existence of a phosphorylated derivative of cordycepin in Bacillus subtilis cells which wer...