Cloning and expression of the pediocin operon in Streptococcus thermophilus and other lactic fermentation bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Coderre, Peter E ^a   Somkuti, George A ^a  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEDIOCIN;

ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIOCINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPERON; PEDIOCOCCUS; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PEDIOCOCCUS ACIDILACTICI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032851505     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900462     Document Type: Article

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