Inducible production and cellular location of the epidermin biosynthetic enzyme EpiB using an improved staphylococcal expression system

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 279-284

  Peschel, Andreas ^a   Ottenwälder, Birgit ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EpiB; epidermin; lanthionine; lantibiotics; Staphylococcus carnosus; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMIN; LANTHIONINE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 17044457776     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00073-0     Document Type: Article

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