Uberolysin: A novel cyclic bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus uberis

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1619-1630

  Wirawan, Ruth E ^a,c   Swanson, Kara M ^a   Kleffmann, Torsten ^b   Jack, Ralph W ^a   Tagg, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; CIRCULARIN A; ENTEROCIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; NISIN; NISIN U; PROTEIN UBLA; UBEROLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIOCINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 34249068328     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/005967-0     Document Type: Article

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