Functional analyses of the promoters in the lantibiotic mutacin II biosynthetic locus in Streptococcus mutans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 652-658

  Qi, Fengxia ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Caufield, Page W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; LANTIBIOTIC; MUTACIN II; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033051428     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.652-658.1999     Document Type: Article

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