Lantibiotics: Biosynthesis and biological activities of uniquely modified peptides from gram-positive bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 41-79

  Sahl, Hans Georg ^a   Bierbaum, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic peptides; Lantibiotic biosynthesis; Mersacidin; Nisin; Peptide modifying enzymes

Indexed keywords

LANTIBIOTIC; MERSACIDIN; NISIN;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; DRUG MANUFACTURE; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARBOXY-LYASES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHOLIPASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SULFIDES; THIAZOLES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031782954     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.52.1.41     Document Type: Review

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