The lumicins: Novel bacteriocins from Photorhabdus luminescens with similarity to the uropathogenic-specific protein (USP) from uropathogenic Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 241-249

  Sharma, Sadhana ^a   Waterfield, Nicholas ^a   Bowen, David ^b   Rocheleau, Thomas ^b   Holland, Lisa ^c   James, Richard ^c   Ffrench Constant, Richard ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Colicin; Lumicin; Photorhabdus luminescens; Pyocin; Uropathogenic specific protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; LUMICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SUBSPECIES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS SUBSP. AKHURSTII;

EID: 0037057129     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00890-X     Document Type: Article

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