Sublancin 168, as a distinct S-linked antimicrobial glycopeptide produced by Bacillus subtilis 168, is effective in killing specific microorganisms. However, the reported yield of sublancin 168 is at a low level of no more than 60 mg from 1 L fermentation culture of B. subtilis 168 by using the method in the literature. Thus optimization of fermentation condition for efficiently producing subla...

Both systems are public key systems, meaning that there is a secret key used for decryption and a publicly available key used for encrypting. In theory everyone can send you an encrypted message by using the public key (if they know where to obtain it), but you’re the only one who can decrypt the message. Of course these systems rely on the difficulties in obtaining the private key, when knowin...

Complete or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum are rather common developmental abnormalities, resulting in a wide spectrum of clinical neurodevelopmental deficits. Currently, a significant number of these cases are detected by prenatal sonography during second trimester screening examinations. However, major uncertainties about a detailed morphological diagnosis and the clinical significan...

Administrators at 68% of 4-year colleges nationwide (N = 747) responded to a survey concerning the types of programs and policies they used in response to students’ heavy drinking. Most schools conducted targeted alcohol education and invested in institutional prevention efforts; half conducted social norms campaigns; a sizeable minority restricted alcohol on campus. Schools that focused on dem...

the aim of this study was to clone the serine alkaline protease-encoding gene from bacillus subtilis 168. this protease, which can have many applications especially in detergent, may be industrially an important enzyme. for the amplification of the gene, pcr was performed with a pair of primers specifically designed for this purpose. electrophoresis of the pcr product showed the expected band o...