Post-translational modification of nisin. The involvement of NisB in the dehydration process

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 524-532

  Sen, Asuman Karakas ^a   Narbad, Arjan ^a   Horn, Nikki ^a   Dodd, Helen M ^a   Parr, Adrian J ^a   Colquhoun, Ian ^a   Gasson, Michael J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Lanthionine; Maturation; NisB; Nisin

Indexed keywords

NISIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERINE;

ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NISIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033560968     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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