The macrocyclic peptide antibiotic micrococcin P1 is secreted by the food-borne bacterium Staphylococcus equorum WS 2733 and inhibits Listeria monocytogenes on soft cheese

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2378-2384

  Carnio, Markus C ^a   Höltzel, Alexandra ^b   Rudolf, Melanie ^a   Henle, Thomas ^c   Jung, Günther ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCOCCIN P1; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEESE; DAIRY INDUSTRY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOCINS; CHEESE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM;

EID: 0343238149     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2378-2384.2000     Document Type: Article

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