Sensitivity to the two-peptide bacteriocin lactococcin G is dependent on UppP, an enzyme involved in cell-wall synthesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1177-1187

  Kjos, Morten ^a,b   Oppegård, Camilla ^c   Diep, Dzung B ^a   Nes, Ingolf F ^a   Veening, Jan Willem ^b   Nissen Meyer, Jon ^c   Kristensen, Tom ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIOCIN; ENTEROCIN 1071; LACTOCOCCIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNDECAPRENYL PYROPHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH INHIBITION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOP CODON; UPPP GENE; WILD TYPE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL WALL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOCINS; CELL WALL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84901992689     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12632     Document Type: Article

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