Absence of a putative mannose-specific phosphotransferase system enzyme IIAB component in a leucocin a-resistant strain of Listeria monocytogenes, as shown by two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3098-3101

  Ramnath, M ^a   Beukes, M ^a   Tamura, K ^b   Hastings, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; MANNOSE; NISIN; PEDIOCIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CROSS RESISTANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS;

BACTERIOCINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MANNOSE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEUCONOSTOC; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS;

EID: 0033930978     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.7.3098-3101.2000     Document Type: Article

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