Insights into the functionality of the putative residues involved in enterocin AS-48 maturation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7268-7276

  Cebrián, Rubén ^a   Maqueda, Mercedes ^a   Neira, José Luis ^b,c   Valdivia, Eva ^a   Martínez Bueno, Manuel ^a   Montalbán López, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOCINS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; CIRCULAR PROTEINS; CIRCULAR STRUCTURES; CLEAVAGE SITES; CULTURE CONDITIONS; CULTURE SUPERNATANT; ENTEROCIN; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MATURE PROTEINS; N-TERMINALS; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS; PREPROTEINS; PRODUCTION LEVEL; RECOGNITION SITE; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SINGLE MUTANT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERICIDES; MACHINERY;

PROTEINS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; ENTEROCIN AS 48, ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCIN AS-48, ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATURATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOCIN PLASMIDS; BACTERIOCINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 78149428780     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01154-10     Document Type: Article

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