The genes for secretion and maturation of lactococcins are located on the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis IL1403

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1689-1692

  Venema, Koen ^a,b   Dost, Michiel H R ^a   Beun, Philip A H ^a   Haandrikman, Alfred J ^a,c   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kok, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hercules European Research Center BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; DNA FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURAL GENE;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029885764     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1689-1692.1996     Document Type: Article

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