Isolation, characterization, and heterologous expression of the novel lantibiotic epicidin 280 and analysis of its biosynthetic gene cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3140-3146

  Heidrich, Christoph ^a   Pag, Ulrike ^a   Josten, Michaele ^a   Metzger, Jörg ^b,c   Jack, Ralph W ^b   Bierbaum, Gabriele ^a   Jung, Günther ^b   Sahl, Hans Georg ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Inst fur Med Mikrobiol/Immunol   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPICIDIN 280; GENE PRODUCT; LANTIBIOTIC; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031665461     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3140-3146.1998     Document Type: Article

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