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Jennifer Rodney Major Works/Major Issues 9/26/06 Bacillus Licheniformis I am amazing. I am even better than Superman. My name is bacillus licheniformis. I am the neglected cousin of bacillus subtilis, the second most studied bacteria in the world. I am a Gram-positive, spore-bearing, saprophytic, facultative anaerobic bacteria. Because I like to eat decaying matter, it makes sense that I prefer to live in the soil. Also, I guess my first name, Bacillus, gives away the fact that I am rod shaped. I have several different uses to the world. I just don’t know what they would do without me. I am great at producing proteases and amylases, proteases, penicillinase, pentosanase, cycloglucosyltransferase, β-mannanase and several pectinolytic enzymes. Many of these enzymes are used by industrial companies to produce detergents. These enzymes greatly increase the cleaning effect of the detergent and help out many families in dire need, such as when they spill spaghetti on their white t-shirts. I am the best bacterium to put in detergents because I grow best in temperatures around 50 degrees Celcius, which is the temperature of detergent in a running washing machine. Most other bacteria cannot handle the heat, and they will stop working in such conditions. I do have other noble causes in the world as well. I am used in the topical polypeptide antibiotic Bacitracin. Bacitracin is used for skin and eye infections, as well as to prevent bacterial infection of a wound. I am also used in the production of useful chemicals such as citric acid, inosine, inosinic acid and poly-γ-glutamic acid. However, since I am not as well researched as my spoiled cousin, bacillus subtilis, I have many more uses that you humans have not found out about yet. Hopefully some of you all will go into research and find out more about how I can save the world! Works Cited: Bacillus Licheniformis. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/genomes.html?http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/b acteria/Bacillus_licheniformis.html. Complete genome sequence of the industrial bacterium Bacillus licheniformis and comparisons with closely related Bacillus species. http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/10/r77