In the present study 10 bacterial isolates were isolated from the three different-different places soil sample by serial dilution and agar plate technique. These bacterial isolated colony were identified on the basis of colony morphology given by Bergey’smanual method and named as MJKS01 to MJKS10. Screening of the colony for the cellulolytic activity was done on the MAM (minimal agar medium) s...

A CONSIDERABLE number of cases of panophthalmitis attributed to the Bacillus subtilis have now been recorded (Poplawska, 1891; R6mer, 1901; Frangois, 1934; Greenspon, 1918; Motolese, 1936; Reese and Khorazo, 1943). In these cases the organism had an exogenous origin and entered the eye through a perforating wound or post-operatively. Davenport and Smith (1952) suggest that many cases of panopht...

A phage, designated CP-51, that carries out generalized transduction in Bacillus cereus and B. anthracis, has recently been isolated from soil. Transducing phages for members of the genus Bacillus have been described previously for B. subtilis and B. licheniformis (2-6). Those that have been best characterized are PBS-1 for B. subtilis (4) and SP-10 and SP-15 for both B. subtilis and B. licheni...

Bacillus subtilis strain LB5 produced lipopeptide antibiotic iturin A-2 in liquid medium. Crude extract from cell-free supernatant of B. subtilis cultivated broth extracted with n-butanol showed antifungal activity to conidial germination of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. The germination of conidia was completely inhibited by crude extract. The ultrastructure of conidia after treated with crud...

In this study we examined marine bacteria associated with different corals (Porites lutea, Galaxea fascicularis, Acropora sp. and Pavona sp.) collected from vicinity of Panjang island, Jepara, North Java Sea, Indonesia for their antimicrobial activities against the bacteria Echerichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus lentus and the yeast Candida glabrata. A total of 13 bacterial isolates...

The ftsL gene is required for the initiation of cell division in a broad range of bacteria. Bacillus subtilis ftsL encodes a 13-kDa protein with a membrane-spanning domain near its N terminus. The external C-terminal domain has features of an alpha-helical leucine zipper, which is likely to be involved in the heterodimerization with another division protein, DivIC. To determine what residues ar...

We describe 46 insertions of the Streptococcus faecalis transposon Tn917 into the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis. These insertion mutations were mapped genetically. Some caused auxotrophic requirements, and others were cryptic. These insertions were scattered around the B. subtilis chromosome. The mutant strains were useful in several ways for mapping and cloning B. subtilis genes and were add...

A number of Bacillus strains isolated from desert soil samples were shown to belong to a previously unidentified species, for which we propose the name Bacillus mojavensis. The type strain is RO-H-1 (= NRRL B-14698). On the basis of restriction digest data, B. mojavensis is most closely related to Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus atrophaeus, and Bacillus subtilis. So far, B. mojavensis can ...

In the facultatively anaerobic bacterium Bacillus licheniformis a gene encoding a protein of the fumarate nitrate reductase family of transcriptional regulators (Fnr) was isolated. Unlike Fnr proteins from gram-negative bacteria, but like Fnr from Bacillus subtilis, the protein contained a C-terminal cluster of cysteine residues. Unlike in Fnr from B. subtilis, this cluster (Cys226-X2-Cys229-X4...