Institute of Microbiology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Chemicho-Tecnology University, State Research Institute of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia
Regulation of phenotypic variability of Bacillus licheniformis mediated by autoinducers of anabiosis, d1-factors was investigated. These factors are represented by alkylhydroxybenzenes. Colonial morphological variants of B.licheniformis were obtained and described (of R,S,M-types) in the first passage of both vegetative proliferative and resting cells. Resting cells were of different type, spores and cyst-like refractile cells induced by autoinducers of anabiosis. The possibility to manage the spectrum of dissociants by the mean of autoinducers of anabiosis was demonstrated.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2006, No. 6, P. 9—13