Members of the genus Bacillus are known to produce a wide arsenal of antimicrobial
substances, including peptide and lipopeptide antibiotics, and bacteriocins. Many of the …

Xylanases are hydrolytic enzymes which randomly cleave the β 1, 4 backbone of the
complex plant cell wall polysaccharide xylan. Diverse forms of these enzymes exist …

The 3,308,274-bp sequence of the chromosome of Lactobacillus plantarum strain WCFS1, a
single colony isolate of strain NCIMB8826 that was originally isolated from human saliva …

For technical, environmental and economical reasons, industrial demands for process-fitted
enzymes have evolved drastically in the last decade. Therefore, continuous efforts are made …

The capacity of bacteria to survive and grow at alkaline pH values is of widespread
importance in the epidemiology of pathogenic bacteria, in remediation and industrial …

Aminoglycoside antibiotics have had a major impact on our ability to treat bacterial infections
for the past half century. Whereas the interest in these versatile antibiotics continues to be …

The majority of the bacterial genome sequences deposited in the National Center for
Biotechnology Information database contain prophage sequences. Analysis of the …

Leading experts from all over the world present an overview of the use of enzymes in
industry for:-the production of bulk products, such as glucose, or fructose-food processing …

The taxonomy of spore‐forming Gram‐positive bacteria has a long and colorful history. In
1872, 35 years after Christian Ehrenberg provided the initial description of Vibrio subtilis …

Lantibiotics are gene-encoded peptides that contain intramolecular ring structures,
introduced through the thioether containing lanthionine and methyllanthionine residues. The …