Article
Transfer of a plasmid determining bacteriocin Bc-48 production and immunity, and response to sexual pheromones in Enterococcus faecalis S-48.
Plasmid - 1 Jul 1992
Martínez-Bueno M, Valdivia E, Gálvez A, Maqueda M
Abstract excerpt
Production of bacteriocin Bc-48 by Enterococcus faecalis S-48 is encoded by the conjugative plasmid pMB1, which is approximately 90 kb and also responds to sex pheromones of E. faecalis OG1X. Mutants harboring deleted forms of this plasmid (pMB1-del, 75 kb) have lost both the phenotype Bc-48 (production and immunity) and the clumping response. The conjugal transfer of pMB1 to E. faecalis OG1X results in the...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacteriocins
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Crosses, Genetic
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Genetic Variation
- Phenotype
- Pheromones
- Plasmids
