Role of altered rpoB alleles in bacillus subtilis sporulation and spore resistance to heat, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, and glutaraldehyde

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 194, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 759-767

  Moeller, Ralf ^a   Vlašić, Ignacija ^b   Reitz, Günther ^a   Nicholson, Wayne L ^c  

^a Institute of Aerospace Medicine   (Germany)

^b Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Chemicals; Heat; Spore resistance; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCOLYSIS; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT GENE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84865977684     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-012-0811-4     Document Type: Article

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