Sporulation of Bacillus thuringiensis Without Concurrent Derepression of the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle

Authors

• Kenneth W. Nickerson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• John De Pinto, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois
• Lee A. Bulla Jr., Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 1974

Comments

Published in JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, Jan. 1974, p. 321-323. Copyright 1974 American Society for Microbiology. Used by permission.

Abstract

Bacillus thuringiensis sporulates in a glucose-glutamate medium without concurrent derepression of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Glutamate appears to regulate tricarboxylic acid cycle activity as well as to influence spore heat resistance and production of dipicolinic acid.