Editing Bacillus cereus (section)

==History==
Colonies of ''B.&nbsp;cereus'' were originally isolated by [[Percy F. Frankland]] from a [[gelatine]] plate left exposed to the air in a cow shed in 1887.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Frankland GC, Frankland PF |date=1 January 1887 |title=Studies on some new micro-organisms obtained from air |journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences]] |volume=178 |pages=257–287 |bibcode=1887RSPTB.178..257F |doi=10.1098/rstb.1887.0011 |jstor=91702 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In the 2010s, examination of [[FDA Warning Letter|warning letters]] issued by the [[Food and Drug Administration|US Food and Drug Administration]] issued to [[pharmaceutical manufacturing]] facilities addressing facility microbial contamination revealed that the most common contaminant was ''B.&nbsp;cereus''.<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Sandle T |date=28 November 2014 |title=The risk of ''Bacillus cereus'' to pharmaceutical manufacturing |url=https://www.americanpharmaceuticalreview.com/Featured-Articles/169507-The-Risk-of-em-Bacillus-cereus-em-to-Pharmaceutical-Manufacturing/ |url-status=live |journal=American Pharmaceutical Review |type=Paper |volume=17 |issue=6 |page=56 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425154058/http://www.americanpharmaceuticalreview.com/Featured-Articles/169507-The-Risk-of-em-Bacillus-cereus-em-to-Pharmaceutical-Manufacturing/ |archive-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>

Several new enzymes have been discovered in ''B.&nbsp;cereus'', such as [[AlkC]] and [[AlkD]], both of which are involved in [[DNA repair]].<ref>
{{cite journal | vauthors = Alseth I, Rognes T, Lindbäck T, Solberg I, Robertsen K, Kristiansen KI, Mainieri D, Lillehagen L, Kolstø AB, Bjørås M | display-authors = 6 | title = A new protein superfamily includes two novel 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylases from Bacillus cereus, AlkC and AlkD | journal = Molecular Microbiology | volume = 59 | issue = 5 | pages = 1602–1609 | date = March 2006 | pmid = 16468998 | pmc = 1413580 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05044.x | author9-link = Anne-Brit Kolstø }}</ref>