Spores of Bacillus subtilis lacking all germinant receptors germinate >500-fold slower than wild-type spores in nutrients and were not induced to germinate by a pressure of 100 MPa. However, a pressure of 550 MPa induced germination of spores lacking all germinant receptors as well as of receptorless spores lacking either of the two lytic enzymes essential for cortex hydrolysis during germinati...

We chose dipicolinic acid as a tridentate chelating unit featuring ONO donors to react with lanthanide(III) ions to yield tight and protective N(3)O(6) environments around the lanthanide(III) ions. We immobilized the lanthanide(III)-dipicolinic acid complexes on colloidal mesoporous silica with diameter smaller than 100 nm by a covalent bond grafting technique and obtained nearly monodisperse l...

Fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching has been used to show that a cytoplasmic GFP fusion is immobile in dormant spores of Bacillus subtilis but becomes freely mobile in germinated spores in which cytoplasmic water content has increased approximately 2-fold. The GFP immobility in dormant spores is not due to the high levels of dipicolinic acid in the spore cytoplasm, because GFP was ...

The enzyme CwlJ is involved in the depolymerization of cortex peptidoglycan during germination of spores of Bacillus subtilis. CwlJ with a C-terminal His tag was functional and was extracted from spores by procedures that remove spore coat proteins. However, this CwlJ was not extracted from disrupted spores by dilute buffer, high salt concentrations, Triton X-100, Ca(2+)-dipicolinic acid, dithi...

Spores from a variety of Bacillus species were analyzed with direct probe mass spectrometry using an electron monochromator to select electrons of distinct energies for ionization. Electron energies were chosen to match the electron capture energies of taxonomically important compounds such as dipicolinic acid and fatty acids. Previous negative ion interferences were not observed when the monoc...

Two series of novel derivatives of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid with potential as polydentate ligands were synthesized from pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid. All new compounds were characterized by NMR, MS, IR, and EA.

The title compound, [Ni(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(C(12)H(8)N(2))(H(2)O)]·C(7)H(5)NO(4)·4H(2)O or [Ni(pydc)(phen)(H(2)O)].pydcH(2)·4H(2)O, was obtained by the reaction of nickel(II) nitrate hexa-hydrate with the proton-transfer compound (phenH)(2)(pydc) (phen is 1,10-phenanothroline and pydcH(2) is pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid) in aqueous solution. Both the cationic and anionic portions of the starting p...