Streptococcus mutans strain N produces a novel low molecular mass non- lantibiotic bacteriocin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 165-169

  Balakrishnan, Mayooran ^a   Simmonds, Robin S ^a   Carne, Alan ^a   Tagg, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Mutacin; Mutans streptococcus; Phosphotransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIOCINS; DENTAL PLAQUE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ACHOLEPLASMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MESOPLASMA FLORUM; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033959175     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00661-8     Document Type: Article

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