Characterization of emetic Bacillus weihenstephanensis, a new cereulide-producing bacterium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5118-5121

  Thorsen, Line ^a   Hansen, Bjarne Munk ^b   Nielsen, Kristian Fog ^c   Hendriksen, Niels Bohse ^b   Phipps, Richard Kerry ^c   Budde, Birgitte Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; CEREULIDE PRODUCTION; EMETIC B. CEREUS STRAINS; GENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS;

BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID; AMYLASE; CEREULIDE; DNA; ENTEROTOXIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SALICIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS; CHO CELL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRASSICA; COLD; DEPSIPEPTIDES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EMETICS; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746095023     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00170-06     Document Type: Article

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