Identification of essential amino acid residues in the nisin dehydratase NisB

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Khusainov, Rustem ^a,d   van Heel, Auke J ^a   Lubelski, Jacek ^a   Moll, Gert N ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Lanthio Pharma   (Netherlands)

^c KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^d CIRCASSIA LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dehydratase; Lanthionine; Lantibiotics; Mechanism; NisB; NisC; Nisin; Posttranslational modifications

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; HYDROLYASE; NISB HYDROLYASE; NISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84927522174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00102     Document Type: Article

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