New type non-lantibiotic bacteriocins: Circular and leaderless bacteriocins

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-12

  Masuda, Y ^a   Zendo, T ^a   Sonomoto, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Bacteriocins; Lactic acid bacteria; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AUREOCIN A53; BACTERIOCIN; CARNOCYCLIN A; CYCLOTIDE; CYSTEINE; ENTEROCIN AS 48; ENTEROCIN EJ97; ENTEROCIN L50; ENTEROCIN L50A; ENTEROCIN L50B; ENTEROCIN MR10A; ENTEROCIN MR10B; ENTEROCIN P; LACTICIN 481; LACTICIN Q; LACTICIN Z; LACTOCOCCIN Q; LANTIBIOTIC; NISIN A; PEDIOCIN PA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEISSELLICIN M; WEISSELLICIN Y; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BRIDGED COMPOUND; ENTEROCIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOCINS; BRIDGED COMPOUNDS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RIBOSOMES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84862243519     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2011.0047     Document Type: Article

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