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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 271, Issue 1, Pages 40-47Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00692.x
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Bacillus cereus; soil; proteomics; 2DE
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Bacillus cereus is believed to be a soil bacterium, but studied solely in laboratory culture media. The aim of this study was to assess the physiology of B. cereus growing on soil organic matter by a proteomic approach. Cells were cultured to mid-exponential phase in soil extracted solubilized organic matter (SESOM), which mimics the nutrient composition of soil, and in Luria-Bertani broth as control. Silver staining of the two-dimensional gels revealed 234 proteins spots up-regulated when cells were growing in SESOM, with 201 protein spots down-regulated. Forty-three of these differentially expressed proteins were detected by Colloidal Coomassie staining and identified by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight MS of tryptic digests. These differentially expressed proteins covered a range of functions, primarily amino acid, lipid, carbohydrate and nucleic acid metabolism. These results suggested growth on soil-associated carbohydrates, fatty acids and/or amino acids, concomitant with shifts in cellular structure.
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