New biologically active hybrid bacteriocins constructed by combining regions from various pediocin-like bacteriocins: The C-terminal region is important for determining specificity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3313-3318

  Fimland, Gunnar ^a   Blingsmo, Ola R ^a   Sletten, Knut ^a   Jung, Günther ^b   Nes, Ingolf F ^c   Nissen Meyer, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; CURVACIN A; LEUCOCIN A; PEDIOCIN; SAKACIN P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029833708     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3313-3318.1996     Document Type: Article

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