Bactericidal mode of action of plantaricin C

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2701-2709

  Gonzalez, Beatriz ^a   Glaasker, Erwin ^b   Kunji, Edmund R S ^b   Driessen, Arnold J M ^b   Suarez, Juan E ^a   Konings, Wil N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; LIPOSOME; PLANTARICIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PROTEOLIPOSOME; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE;

EID: 0029767017     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.8.2701-2709.1996     Document Type: Article

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