Engineering a disulfide bond and free thiols in the lantibiotic nisin Z

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 901-909

  Van Kraaij, Cindy ^a   Breukink, Eefjan ^c   Rollema, Harry S ^a   Bongers, Roger S ^a   Kosters, Hans A ^a   De Kruijff, Ben ^c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO Food Research ^*

Author keywords

Cysteine; Lactococcus lactis; Mutagenesis; Nisin; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; IODOACETAMIDE; LANTHIONINE; LANTIBIOTIC; NISIN Z; SERINE; SULFIDE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DISULFIDE BOND; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LIPOSOMES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NISIN; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STREPTOCOCCUS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0033950308     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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