Purification and biochemical characterization of mutacin I from the group I strain of Streptococcus mutans, CH43, and genetic analysis of mutacin I biosynthesis genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3221-3229

  Qi, F ^a   Chen, P ^a   Caufield, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTACIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033859933     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.8.3221-3229.2000     Document Type: Article

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