Role of lipid II and membrane thickness in the mechanism of action of the lantibiotic bovicin HC5

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5284-5293

  Paiva, Aline Dias ^a,b   Breukink, Eefjan ^b   Mantovani, Hilário Cuquetto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVICIN HC5; LANTIBIOTIC; LIPID; LIPID 2; NISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; DRUG MECHANISM; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; CELL MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NISIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; STREPTOCOCCUS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

EID: 80054686422     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00638-11     Document Type: Article

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