(n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report the isolation of an RNA polymerase from sporulating cells of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.
(2) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
(3) Bordetella pertussis and Bacillus anthracis, two taxonomically distinct bacteria, secrete adenylate cyclase toxins that are activated by the eukaryotic protein calmodulin.
(4) The action of neopullulanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus on many oligosaccharides was tested.
(5) Bacillus subtilis grown at 42 degrees C produces a major form of Gro EL-like chaperonin that has been analyzed by electron microscopy.
(6) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(7) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
(8) These cocultures can be considered as metabolic associations, where the Bacillus produces degradation and fermentation products of pectin, which can be used by Azospirillum species.
(9) 6-(Benzylamino)uracils and substituted 6-anilinouracils have been found to be potent inhibitors of Bacillus subtilis DNA polymerase III by a mechanism identical with that of 6-(phenylhydrazino)uracils.
(10) The temperature optimum is 70-73 degrees C and growth occurs from 62 to 77 degrees C. The organism's thermal and physiological characteristics are compared to those of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Sulfolobus acidocalderius, Thermus aquaticus, Thermus flavus, as well as Thiobacillus denitrificans, the latter being the only other facultatively anaerobic chemolithotroph which has been isolated and described.
(11) A 4.1-kb EcoRI fragment which includes the gene (gldA) encoding a glycerol dehydrogenase (G1DH; EC 1.1.1.6; glycerol:NAD oxidoreductase) from Bacillus stearothermophilus var.
(12) Studies were performed on the prtR gene which enhances the production of the Bacillus subtilis extracellular proteases and levansucrase, but not the alpha-amylase, RNase, and alkaline phosphatase.
(13) 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.
(14) Six cultures of Bacillus and six lot numbers of Trypticase soy agar (BBL) were used to test the hypothesis that a microorganism grown on various lot numbers of the same chromatogram.
(15) Effects of alpha- or beta-D-glucose on the respiration of germinated spores (only germinated spores not including swollen spores and elongated spores) of Bacillus subtilis and B. megaterium were studied.
(16) The predicted amino acid sequence of the partial APase clone as well as the experimentally determined amino acid sequence of the enzyme indicated that B. licheniformis APase retains the important features conserved among other APases of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and various human tissues.
(17) A series of plasmids has been constructed that can be used to fuse the beta-galactosidase gene (lacZ) of Escherichia coli to chromosomal genes of Bacillus subtilis.
(18) Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus was purified to homogeneity as judged by analytical and sodium dodecyl sulphate disc gel electrophoresis and by immunoelectrophoresis.
(19) These results suggest that growth patterns of Bacillus subtilis can be altered as a result of magnetic-field-induced effects.
(20) The above-cited results, in conjunction with previous results obtained with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis, involve diverse biochemical pathways and suggest that nutritional manipulation to alter the pattern of carbon flow in microorganisms is a generally useful means to accomplish increased sensitivity to growth inhibition by metabolite analogs.
Coccus
Definition:
(n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
(n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, the results obtained with OK-432 were most the same as those with HSu-coccus in these respects.
(2) A greater amount of these PBPs was secreted by both L forms than by the coccus.
(3) A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria.
(4) Upon starvation, Ant-300, a psychrophilic marine vibrio, was observed to decrease in size and change in shape from a rod to a coccus.
(5) RodA and rodB mutations cause rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis cells to become coccus-shaped when the growth temperature is increased from 30 to 45 degrees C. At 30 degrees C four rod strains sporulated as well as the genetically closely related rod+ strains.
(6) Veillonella alcalescens ATCC 17745, a strictly anaerobic, gram-negative small coccus, requires putrescine or cadaverine for growth (M. B. Ritchey, and E. A. Delwiche, J. Bacteriol.
(7) Average rod-coccus ratios obtained at 37, 42, and 45 degrees C were 1:2.2, 1:8, and 1:2.4, respectively.
(8) The two largest PBPs (PBPs 1 and 2) of the coccus were absent in both L forms, while the smallest PBPs (PBPs 5 and 6) were found in all three membranes.
(9) Between 75 and 95% of the mutants isolated from the species that formed rods when septum formation was inhibited by antibiotics but none of those isolated from the others underwent coccus-to-rod transition upon incubation at the nonpermissive temperature.
(10) Gemella haemolysans, a coccus related to the "Streptococcaceae", was isolated from the blood of a patient with endocarditis.
(11) When beta-lactam antimicrobial agents (such as AMPC and CFIX) with no PAE against the gram-negative rods were tested, the ERT of the gram-negative rods were about two hours shorter than that of the gram-positive coccus.
(12) When new quinolone antimicrobial agents (such as OFLX) and aminoglycosides (such as ISP) that possess PAE against both the gram-positive and negative organisms were used there was no difference between ERT of the gram-negative rods and gram-positive coccus.
(13) Five patients with annular infection at the active phase had a shorter duration from the infectious onset to operation (20 days to 2 months, average 38 days), and the causative microorganisms were streptococcus faecalis, staphylococcus epidermidis and gram-negative coccus.
(14) They were 834 strains of gram-positive coccus (32.5%).
(15) Two patients are described with occupational asthma due to carmine, a natural dye extracted from the insect Coccus cactus.
(16) Temperature shift experiments and ultrastructural data indicated that coccus-shaped cells were unable to form prespore septa and were, therefore, inhibited at stage 0 of sporulation.
(17) Fluorescent antibody and ELISA studies have shown that both patients developed an antibody response to this anaerobic coccus soon after the replacement operation.
(18) In the absence of trypsin (which activates a latent form of the autolysin), autolysis of LOG walls appeared to start at the equatorial bands and to proceed back towards the apex of the coccus.
(19) These strains displayed the rod-coccus growth cycle and contained mesodiaminopimelic acid, mycolic acids, and tuberculostearic acids.
(20) On the 7th day after injection of HSu-coccus, about 90% of the peritoneal cells was lymphocytes, and 70% of these lymphocytes was susceptible to rabbit anti mouse thymus cell serum or to AKR anti thetaC3H serum.