Heat shock proteins do not influence wet heat resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores

Authors
Melly, E Setlow, P
Citation
E. Melly et P. Setlow, Heat shock proteins do not influence wet heat resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores, J BACT, 183(2), 2001, pp. 779-784
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00219193 → ACNP
Volume
183
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
779 - 784
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9193(200101)183:2<779:HSPDNI>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Spores of Bacillus subtilis are significantly more resistant to wet heat th an are their vegetative cell counterparts. Analysis of the effects of mutat ions in and the expression of fusions of a coding gene for a thermostable b eta -galactosidase to a number of heat shock genes has shown that heat shoc k proteins play no significant role in the wet heat resistance of B. subtil is spores.