Bacillus subtilis

bacterium
Also known as: hay bacillus

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production of bacitracin

species of bacillus

  • bacterial cell
    In bacillus

    …hay bacillus (now known as Bacillus subtilis): one that could be killed upon exposure to heat and one that was resistant to heat. He called the heat-resistant forms “spores” (endospores) and discovered that these dormant forms could be converted to a vegetative, or actively growing, state. Today it is known…

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work of Yanofsky

  • In Charles Yanofsky

    coli and Bacillus subtilis. While conducting experiments focused on discerning the mechanisms of this process in 1981, Yanofsky noticed that the cell was able to sense how much tryptophan was present and alter the transcription process accordingly, halting it if necessary. This indicated that mRNA was not…

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