Bacillus megaterium has been industrially employed for more than 50 years, as it possesses
some very useful and unusual enzymes and a high capacity for the production of …

Bacillw megaterium has fascinated microbiologists since it was first described over 100
years ago. It is interesting especiall!. because of its physiology, unusual and useful enzymes …

Biofilms are structured communities of cells encased in a polymeric matrix and adherent to a
surface, interface or each other. We report here that the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms …

We have purified and characterized a modified peptide pheromone that accumulates in
culture medium as B. subtilis grows to high density. This pheromone is required for the …

Although small-colony variants (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus have been recognized for
many years, this phenotype has only recently been related to persistent and recurrent …

Biofilm formation is thought to result from the concerted action of primary attachment to a
specific surface and accumulation in multilayered cell clusters. Here we describe the …

The spo0J gene of Bacillus subtilis is required for the initiation of sporulation. We show that
the sporulation defect caused by null mutations in spo0J is suppressed by a null mutation in …

A system for high-efficiency gene replacement in Staphylococcus carnosus and
Staphylococcus xylosus has been developed, that is based on temperature-sensitive …

Biofilms are communities of microbial cells that are encased in a self‐produced, polymeric
matrix and are adherent to a surface. For several species of bacteria, an enhanced ability to …

In many bacteria, there is a genome-wide bias towards co-orientation of replication and
transcription, with essential and/or highly-expressed genes further enriched co-directionally …