Ethanol sensitivity of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis: a new tool for the analysis of the sporulation process.
AUTOR(ES)
Bohin, J P
RESUMO
The growth rate of Bacillus subtilis is lowered but the final cell yield is unchanged when certain concentrations of ethanol are present in the culture medium. At the concentration allowing growth at half-maximal rate, practically no spores are formed. Blockage of spore formation generally occurs at stage 0-I. Sensitivity to ethanol of the capacity to form spores is limited, in a nonsynchronized culture, to a period of at most 45 min around t1. Postexponential events such as excretion of certain enzymes and modification of ribonucleic acid polymerase are altered or suppressed in the presence of ethanol, possibly as the results of a physical change upon the cell membrane. In effect, ethanol is turning wild-type cells into phenocopies of spoO mutants.
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