Molecular analysis of the locus responsible for production of plantaricin S, a two-peptide bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus plantarum LPCO10

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1871-1877

  Stephens, Sarah K ^a   Floriano, Belén ^b   Cathcart, Declan P ^a,c   Bayley, Susan A ^a   Witt, Valerie F ^a   Jiménez Díaz, Rufino ^b   Warner, Philip J ^a   Ruiz Barba, José Luis ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE LA GRASA   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; NES; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031859613     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1871-1877.1998     Document Type: Article

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