Variable Bacteriocin Production in the Commercial Starter Lactococcus lactis DPC4275 Is Linked to the Formation of the Cointegrate Plasmid pMRC02

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-42

  Trotter, Maeve ^a   McAuliffe, Olivia E ^b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,c   Hill, Colin ^a,c   Ross, R Paul ^b,c,d   Coffey, Aidan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ELECTROPORATION;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIOCIN; LACTICIN; LANTIBIOTIC; PROTEIN PMT60; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0346500449     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.34-42.2004     Document Type: Article

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