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

doi:10.1128/mSphere.00376-21

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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ISSN: 2379-5042 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/msphere

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