Improvement of BacteriocinProduction by Bacillus subtilis NK16via Elicitation with Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbial Cells

FouadNajmAbd,; KhalidJaberKadhumLuti,

	Improvement of BacteriocinProduction by Bacillus subtilis NK16via Elicitation with Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbial Cells
Iraqi Journal of Biotechnology
Article 1, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 59-73
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Abstract
Since microorganisms normally exist with other species in nature, they have developed complex metabolic as a result of such interspecies interactions. Our strategy for the elicitation of Bacillus subtilisNK16presented in this studyis based on utilizing some aspects of these interactions by introducing microbial cells to Bacillus subtilis NK16culture in order to enhance bacteriocin production.Elicitation experiments were carried out by introducinglive and dead cells as well as culture supernatant of live and dead cells of Staph. aureus, Bacillus sp and E. coli as prokaryotic cells and Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus niger as eukaryotic cellsseparately to the Bacillus subtilis NK16culture at zero time. Based on the results obtained in this study, Bacillus subtilis NK16increased its production of bacteriocin as a result of interaction with microbial elicitor cells. The maximum enhancement was achieved in the culture elicited with live cells of Staph. aureusat an inoculation level of 0.5% with an increase of approximately 8-folds.
Keywords
Bacillus subtilis; bacteriocin; Improvement; interspecies interaction; elicitation

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