Tentative assignment for each carbon resonance in the natural abundance high resolution carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance Fourier transform spectrum at 25.2 MHz of the biologically active cyclic octapeptides, synthetic oxytocin (43 carbons) and lysine-vasopressin (46 carbons) and the cyclic dodecapeptide bacitracin (66 carbons) has been made using a number of different techniques. The 1% ass...

The effects of oligosaccharide supplementation on the growth performance, flock uniformity and GIT development of broiler chickens were investigated. Four diets, one negative control, one positive control supplemented with zinc-bacitracin, and two test diets supplemented with mannoligosaccharide (MOS) and fructooligosaccharide (FOS), were used for the experiment. Birds given MOS or FOS had impr...

Soil bacteria are among the most prodigious producers of antibiotics. The Bacillus subtilis LiaRS (formerly YvqCE) two-component system is one of several antibiotic-sensing systems that coordinate the genetic response to cell wall-active antibiotics. Upon the addition of vancomycin or bacitracin, LiaRS autoregulates the liaIHGFSR operon. We have characterized the promoter of the lia operon and ...

Twenty six thermotolerant strains resistant to high levels of chromium (50-250 microg/ml) were isolated from treated tannery effluent. They were also found resistant to multiple heavy metals and antibiotics. Majority of them were resistant to copper and bacitracin. Nine strains representing different resistance patterns were selected for plasmid profile and conjugation studies. Agarose gel elec...

The frequency of nitrosoguanidine-induced mutation for streptomycin-, bacitracin- and rifampicin-resistance was measured in Streptococcus mutans during synchronous replication after release from chloramphenicol inhibition. A clear peak of mutagenesis for each marker was observed at certain times during synchronous replication. These times were different for individual markers; the times of peak...

In this study, different strains were isolated from the fermented milk in Vellore and were subjected to preliminary screening and 45 isolates were obtained and it was characterized and examined for the presence of probiotic properties like cholesterol assimilation, exopolysaccride production and antibiotic resistance. The cholesterol assimilation ranged from 28-83%, which is significantly highe...

The peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls is biosynthesized in a complex reaction cycle in which lipid intermediates serve as carriers of activated sugar fragments (1). The lipid intermediates (e.g., lipid-P-P-disaccharide-pentapeptide) have been identified as derivatives of an acyclic isoprenoid alcohol which has a chain length of 11 isoprene units (2, 3). In the cyclic reaction, the disacchar...