Abstract
Bacillus thuringiensis serovar Monterrey strain BGSC 4AJ1 produced a microscopically visible capsule that reacted with a fluorescent antibody specific for the poly-?-d-glutamic acid (PGA) capsule of Bacillus anthracis. PGA capsule biosynthesis genes with 75%, 81%, 72%, 65% and 63% similarity, respectively, to those of the B. anthracis capBCADE cluster were present on a plasmid (pAJ1-1). Strain BGSC 4AJ1, together with five strains of Bacillus cereus that hybridized to a PGA cap gene probe, were analyzed phylogenetically using six housekeeping genes of a B. cereus multilocus sequence typing scheme. Bacillus thuringiensis BGSC 4AJ1 shared four identical alleles with B. anthracis and was the second most closely related to this bacterium of the 674 isolates in the multilocus sequence typing database. The other cap + strains were distributed among various lineages of Clade 1 of the B. cereus group. © 2008 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 220-226 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | FEMS Microbiology Letters |
Volume | 285 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2008 |
Keywords
- Bacillus anthracis
- Bacillus cereus
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Capsule
- MLST
- Polyglutamic acid