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Journal of Bacteriology, January 2001, p. 779-784, Vol. 183, No. 2
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.2.779-784.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Heat Shock Proteins Do Not Influence Wet Heat Resistance of Bacillus subtilis Spores

Elizabeth Melly and Peter Setlow*

University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06032

Received 18 August 2000/Accepted 23 October 2000

Spores of Bacillus subtilis are significantly more resistant to wet heat than are their vegetative cell counterparts. Analysis of the effects of mutations in and the expression of fusions of a coding gene for a thermostable beta -galactosidase to a number of heat shock genes has shown that heat shock proteins play no significant role in the wet heat resistance of B. subtilis spores.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06032. Phone: (860) 679-2607. Fax: (860) 679-3408. E-mail: setlow{at}sun.uchc.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, January 2001, p. 779-784, Vol. 183, No. 2
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.2.779-784.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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