The GTP pool in Bacillus brevis and its significance for sporulation
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 165 (1), 223-227
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb11215.x
Abstract
The GTP pool of Bacillus brevis as well as that of other nucleotides is highly sensitive to all kinds of environmental changes like the cell transfer procedures or nutrient depletion of the cells. In growing cultures, as well as in cells transferred from rich to nitrogen-deficient medium, the nucleotide pool decreases significantly. This decrease is followed by the onset of sporulation only when cells are allowed to produce the peptide antibiotic tyrocidine or if tyrocidine is added to the culture. However, exogenous tyrocidine is active in triggering sporulation only when it is added within a short period of time immediately after shift down, that is when the nucleotide pool is observed to decrease.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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