(n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus was purified to homogeneity as judged by analytical and sodium dodecyl sulphate disc gel electrophoresis and by immunoelectrophoresis.
(2) Renal dipeptidase (dehydropeptidase-I, EC 3.4.13.11) was released from pig kidney membrane preparations by treatment with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus thuringiensis and a phospholipase C preparation from Bacillus cereus to a similar extent as alkaline phosphatase.
(3) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
(4) The effect of a selected group of metabolic inhibitors on the autolytic system of B. cereus and E. coli has been examined.
(5) In one case the keratitis was caused by Bacillus cereus.
(6) The gene coding for oligo-1,6-glucosidase from Bacillus cereus ATCC7064 has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli MV1184 cells under the control of the lac promoter in the genetically engineered plasmid pBCE4-2.
(7) In a review the author describes the most important exoproducts of strains of Bacillus cereus which contribute to its pathogenicity.
(8) We investigated the enzymatic properties of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) from Bacillus cereus towards glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchored acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from bovine erythrocytes and Torpedo electric organ as substrate.
(9) Suspensions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus were continuously sparged with nitrogen to remove gaseous products of nitrate reduction.
(10) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
(11) Residues were assayed by a microbiological agar diffusion method, with Bacillus cereus as test-organism.
(12) The test is presumptive in that differentiation of B. cereus (and closely related organisms) from other species is based on the formation of turbidity in the agar surrounding the colonies of the cereus group organisms.
(13) Growth of and enterotoxin production by psychrotrophic B. cereus could be prevented by temperatures below 4 degrees C and pH-values not exceeding 5.0.
(14) Since KG agar enhances spore formation by B. cereus, thus permitting early serological testing, its use in screening food products is advocated.
(15) A change in interaction with spores of Bacillus cereus occurred in the range of critical concentrations of micelle formation.
(16) Spores of Bacillus cereus contain a similar toxin although the specific activity is much lower than the spores of B. thuringiensis.
(17) Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus led to a strong hyperpolarization and a fall in membrane resistance.
(18) The crystal structure of the neutral protease from Bacillus cereus has been refined to an R factor of 17.5% at 0.2-nm resolution.
(19) Suspensions of Bacillus cereus T, B. subtilis, and B. pumilus spores in water or potassium phosphate buffer were germinated by hydrostatic pressures of between 325 and 975 atm.
(20) Volatiles caused increased growth of Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus cereus, Erwinia carotovora, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, A. radiobacter, Rhizobium japonicum, Mucor mucedo, Fusarium oxysporum f. conglutinans, Trichoderma viride, and Penicillium vermiculatum but not of Sarcina lutea, Serratia marcescens, Chaetomium globosum, or Schizophyllum commune.
Moonflower
Definition:
(n.) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
(n.) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.