Genetics of ribosomally synthesized peptide antibiotics

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue , 1992, Pages 141-163

  Kolter, Roberto ^a   Moreno, Felipe ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

lactacins; lanthionine; lantibiotics; microcins; peptide export

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; COLICIN; EPIDERMIN; LACTACIN F; LANTHIOPEPTIN; LANTIBIOTIC; MICROCIN; NISIN; PEDIOCIN; SUBTILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0026663308     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.mi.46.100192.001041     Document Type: Review

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