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Assaying for Inorganic Polyphosphate in Bacteria
Published on: January 21, 2019
Effects of Phosphate in Medium on Protein Secretion in a Protein-Producing Bacterium, Bacillus brevis 47
N Tsukagoshi1, H Yamada, A Tsuboi
1Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|August 1, 1981
Abstract:
Bacillus brevis 47 secreted up to 1 mg of protein per ml in a chemically defined medium, depending on phosphate concentration. The composition of exoproteins was altered quantitatively by the concentration of external phosphate. Morphologically, B. brevis 47 showed a distinct three-layered cell wall structure and shed the outer two layers during growth.
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