General Stress Regulon -Dependent B Ϛ Is Part of the subtilis Bacillus One of Two OsmC Homologs in

has been shown to play a crucial role in the devel-opment of this nonspecific starvation-mediated resistance tooxidative stress (5). However, it is necessary to identify andinvestigate the physiological roles of additional general stressproteins to further support this hypothesis. Identification ofgeneral stress proteins by N-terminal sequencing (3, 8, 40, 41)has greatly benefited from the recent release of the completesequence of the