Bacillus cereus spores release alanine that synergizes with inosine to promote germination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Dodatko, Tetyana ^a   Akoachere, Monique ^b   Muehlbauer, Stefan M ^a   Helfrich, Forrest ^c   Howerton, Amber ^b   Ross, Christian ^b   Wysocki, Vicki ^c   Brojatsch, Jürgen ^a   Abel Santos, Ernesto ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CYCLOSERINE; DIPICOLINIC ACID; GLYCINE; INOSINE; LEUCINE; PROTEIN GERL; PROTEIN GERQ; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; SPORE GERMINATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; GERMINATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALANINE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GERMINATION; INOSINE; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 68149101453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006398     Document Type: Article

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