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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 68, Issue 6, Pages 3172-3175Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.6.3172-3175.2002
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R37 GM019698, GM19698, R01 GM019698] Funding Source: Medline
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Spores of Bacillus subtilis lacking all germinant receptors germinate >500-fold slower than wild-type spores in nutrients and were not induced to germinate by a pressure of 100 MPa. However, a pressure of 550 MPa induced germination of spores lacking all germinant receptors as well as of receptorless spores lacking either of the two lytic enzymes essential for cortex hydrolysis during germination. Complete germination of spores either lacking both cortex-lytic enzymes or with a cortex not attacked by these enzymes was not induced by a pressure of 550 MPa, but treatment of these mutant spores with this pressure caused the release of dipicolinic acid. These data suggest the following conclusions: (i) a pressure of 100 MPa induces spore germination by activating the germinant receptors; and (ii) a pressure of 550 MPa opens channels for release of dipicolinic acid from the spore core, which leads to the later steps in spore germination.
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