Biochemical and genetic characterization of enterocin A from Enterococcus faecium, a new antilisterial bacteriocin in the pediocin family of bacteriocins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1676-1682

  Aymerich, Teresa ^a   Holo, Helge ^b   Håvarstein, Leiv Sigve ^b   Hugas, Marta ^a   Garriga, Margarita ^a   Nes, Ingolf F ^b  

^a Finca Camps i Armet   (Spain)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; COLICIN; LANTIBIOTIC; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARNOBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LEUCONOSTOC; PEDIOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030012762     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1676-1682.1996     Document Type: Article

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