Chapter 22 Whole-Cell Generation of Lantibiotic Variants

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 458, Issue A, 2009, Pages 559-574

  Cortés, Jesús ^a   Appleyard, Antony N ^a   Dawson, Michael J ^a  

^a Novacta Biosystems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTAGARDIN; EPIDERMIN; GALLIDERMIN; LACTICIN 3147; LANTHIOPEPTIN; LANTIBIOTIC; MERSACIDIN; MUTACIN 2; NISIN; NUKACIN; PEP5 LANTIBIOTIC; SUBTILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WHOLE CELL;

BACTERIOCINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 64249162751     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(09)04822-8     Document Type: Review

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