Purification and characterization of the antimicrobial peptide microcin N

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-125

  Corsini, Gino ^a   Karahanian, Eduardo ^a   Tello, Mario ^b   Fernandez, Katia ^a   Rivero, Daniel ^a   Saavedra, Jose Miguel ^a   Ferrer, Alonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Bacteriocin; Microcin 24

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; LYSOZYME; MICROCIN 24; MICROCIN A; MICROCIN B; MICROCIN I; MICROCIN N; MICROCIN R; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEINASE K; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79251525555     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02106.x     Document Type: Letter

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