Syntheses and Flavors of Four Possible Optical Isomers of Marmelo Lactones |
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Authors: | Masao Konno Yoshihiro Nishida Hiroshi Ohrui Hiroshi Meguro |
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Affiliation: | Department of Food Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi, Sendai 980, Japan |
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Abstract: | We have isolated a tetracycline-resistant (Tcr) Bacillus species (named HE-1) which carries multiple plasmids. HE-1 was identified as Bacillus cereus and found to bear four plasmids. Tetracycline resistance could be attributed to one of four plasmids (designated as pTIT β2 (4.7 kb)) indistinguishable from pBC16, a Tcr plasmid formerly found in B. cereus [K. Bernhard, H. Schrempf, and W. Goebel, J. Bacteriol., 133, 897 (1978)]. All the other three plasmids (named pTITα (4.0 kb), pTIT β1 (4.7 kb) and pTIT γ (12.4 kb)) were cryptic and did not correlate with bacterial phenotypic traits such as antibiotic resistance or antibiotic and bacteriocin production. B. cereus HE-1 also showed resistance to penicillin, but this seemed very likely to be chromosomally determined in B. cereus. Of interest was the fact that pTITα, pTIT β1, and pTITγ had a noticeable DNA homology among them in blot hybridization. pTIT β2 alone did not shared sequence homology with the other three plasmids. |
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