mSphere
(Aug 2021)
Direct Antibiotic Activity of Bacillibactin Broadens the Biocontrol Range of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MBI600
Anastasia Dimopoulou,
Ioannis Theologidis,
Dimitra Benaki,
Marilena Koukounia,
Amalia Zervakou,
Aliki Tzima,
George Diallinas,
Dimitris G. Hatzinikolaou,
Nicholas Skandalis
Affiliations
Anastasia Dimopoulou
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Ioannis Theologidis
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Dimitra Benaki
Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Marilena Koukounia
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Amalia Zervakou
Department of Biology, Sector of Botany, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Aliki Tzima
Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
George Diallinas
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Dimitris G. Hatzinikolaou
Department of Biology, Sector of Botany, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Nicholas Skandalis
ORCiD Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00376-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6,
no. 4
Abstract
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Siderophores have mostly been studied concerning their contribution to the fitness and virulence of bacterial pathogens. In the present work, we isolated and characterized for the first time the siderophore bacillibactin from a commercial bacterial biocontrol agent.
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