1. An experiment was conducted to study the effects of different Bacillus subtilis concentrations on productivity, carcase quality, immune response and the gut microflora of broiler chickens. 2. There were 5 treatment groups: control, with no added Bacillus subtilis supplementation; and 4 treatment groups receiving feed supplemented with different concentrations of B. subtilis. 3. Weight ga...

Superdormant spores of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis germinated just as well as dormant spores with pressures of 150 or 500 MPa and with or without heat activation. Superdormant B. subtilis spores also germinated as well as dormant spores with peptidoglycan fragments or bryostatin, a Ser/Thr protein kinase activator.

Joys, Terence M. (University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis). Correlation between susceptibility to bacteriophage PBS1 and motility in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 90:1575-1577. 1965.-A correlation is shown to exist in Bacillus subtilis between susceptibility to phage PBS1 and motility, indicating that the receptor site for this phage is located on the flagellum.

Phenotypically, Bacillus atrophaeus is indistinguishable from the type strain of Bacillus subtilis except by virtue of pigment production on certain media. Several pigmented variants of B. subtilis have been reclassified as B. atrophaeus, but several remain ambiguous in regard to their taxonomic placement. In this study, we examined strains within the American Type Culture Collection originally...

Elsorra E. Idris1, 2, H. Bochow2, H. Ross3, R. Borriss1 1 Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute of Biology, Dept. of Bacterial Genetics, Chausseestr. 117, D-10115 Berlin, Germany 2 Humboldt University, Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Sect. of Phytomedicine, Lentzeallee 55/57, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 3 Humboldt University, Berlin, Ins...

Here, we report the whole-genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis strain DKU_NT_01 isolated from traditional Korean food containing soybean (chung-gook-jang). The de novo genome of Bacillus subtilis strain DKU_NT_01 has one contig and G+C content of 55.4%, is 4,954,264 bp in length, and contains 5,011 coding sequences (CDSs).

gamma-Glutamyltranspeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2) of Bacillus subtilis, which is an extracellular enzyme, hydrolyzes the gamma-glutamyl linkage of glutathione. YwrD, which is homologous to gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, was speculated to have a similar physiological role. It was shown that gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, but not YwrD, is important in utilizing glutathione as the sole sulfur source in Baci...