1. After extraction of teichoic acid from cell walls of Bacillus licheniformis with dilute alkali, the insoluble residue contains the teichuronic acid and mucopeptide components and a small amount of residual phosphorus. 2. A complex of teichuronic acid and a part of the mucopeptide was isolated from the soluble fraction obtained by lysozyme treatment of alkali extracted walls. 3. Small-molecul...

To cope with a sudden increase in the external pH value to 8.9, Bacillus subtilis cells induce about 80 genes which can be divided into two classes. Most of these genes are members of the sigma(W) regulon, while some are under the control of so-far-unknown transcriptional regulators. The genes of the pst operon belong to the second class. Here, we attempted to answer the questions of why and ho...

In 0.05 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0, ZO”), native rabbit muscle aldolase has been found to exhibit a molecular weight (mn N g, pZ) close to 160,000, in agreement with previous findings. Upon exposure to cold alkaline borate buffer (pH 12.5, p = 0.17, 0”), the enzyme spontaneously dissociates into its monomers which subsequently undergo slow hydrolytic degradation. Compensating for elec...

Natural coir fibers, subjectd to thermal treatments in the range of 0oC to 200oC and alkali treatment with 5% to 30% concentration w/w, have been used in the present investigation to determine the interlayer variability of the cellulose planes (020), (110) and (110). Among the equatorial reflections (110), (110) and (020), the extent of variability is found to be more with the proportion of suc...

In 0.05 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0, ZO”), native rabbit muscle aldolase has been found to exhibit a molecular weight (mn N g, pZ) close to 160,000, in agreement with previous findings. Upon exposure to cold alkaline borate buffer (pH 12.5, p = 0.17, 0”), the enzyme spontaneously dissociates into its monomers which subsequently undergo slow hydrolytic degradation. Compensating for elec...