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. 2000 Mar;66(3):1220-2.
doi: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.1220-1222.2000.

Transient growth requirement in Bacillus subtilis following the cessation of exponential growth

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Transient growth requirement in Bacillus subtilis following the cessation of exponential growth

H M Sung et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2000 Mar.

Abstract

During an investigation of the parameters controlling mutations in Bacillus subtilis we observed that this bacterium exhibits a transient growth requirement for two nonessential amino acids (glutamic acid and isoleucine) during a type of postexponential growth on a minimal medium.

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