ArticleBMC microbiology2014
L-alanine-induced germination in Bacillus licheniformis -the impact of native gerA sequences.
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- L-Alanine promotes anti-infectious properties of Bacillus subtilis S-2 spores via the germination receptor gerAA.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2024Article
- Mechanisms and Applications of Bacterial Sporulation and Germination in the Intestine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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- Importance of Individual Germination Receptor Subunits in the Cooperative Function between GerA and Ynd.Journal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- Evaluation of Peroxides and Chlorine Oxides as Disinfectants for Chemical Sterilization of Gnotobiotic Rodent Isolators.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2019Article
- Role of stereospecific nature of germinants in3 Biotech · 2017Article
- Effects of High Pressure on Bacillus licheniformis Spore Germination and Inactivation.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Analysis of Germination Capacity and Germinant Receptor (Sub)clusters of Genome-Sequenced Bacillus cereus Environmental Isolates and Model Strains.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- The Cooperative and Interdependent Roles of GerA, GerK, and Ynd in Germination of Bacillus licheniformis Spores.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Modeling the recovery of heat-treated Bacillus licheniformis Ad978 and Bacillus weihenstephanensis KBAB4 spores at suboptimal temperature and pH using growth limits.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundL-alanine, acting through the GerA receptor, was recently found to be an efficient germinant in Bacillus licheniformis ATCC14580/DSM13.
resultsIn this study, we show that several of 46 examined B. licheniformis strains germinate remarkably slower than the type strain when exposed to L-alanine. These strains are not necessarily closely related, as determined by MLST (multi-locus sequence typing). Three of the slow-germinating strains were further examined in order to see whether nucleotide substitutions in the gerA sequences were responsible for the slow L-alanine germination. This was performed by complementing the transformable type strain derivate MW3ΔgerAA with gerA variants from the three slow-germinating strains; NVH1032, NVH1112 and NVH800.
conclusionsA wide selection of B. licheniformis strains was evaluated for L-alanine-induced germination efficiency. Our results show that gerA substitutions could only partially explain why spores of some B. licheniformis strains responded slower than others in the presence of L-alanine.
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