Therefore Bacillus subtilis, a Gram-positive prokaryote serving as a model organism 1, was subject to a wide range of transcriptomic 2,3, proteomic 4,5 and metabolomic studies 6,7. Unlike ...

The new study found that the probiotic Bacillus subtilis markedly reduced S. aureus colonization in trial participants without harming the gut microbiota, which includes bacteria that can benefit ...

This also applies to spore-forming bacteria. Bacillus subtilis can survive unfavourable living conditions by forming endospores. Time-lapse microscopy studies suggest that the bacteria can either make ...

MIT and Tulane researchers discovered that the mobile gene element Tn916 can insert into over 1,500 spots in Bacillus subtilis, mainly targeting AT-rich regions. This flexibility helps spread ...