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Analysis of genes involved in biosynthesis of the lantibiotic subtilin.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 1992
Klein C, Kaletta C, Schnell N, Entian K D
Abstract excerpt
Lantibiotics are peptide-derived antibiotics with high antimicrobial activity against pathogenic gram-positive bacteria. They are ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified (N. Schnell, K.-D. Entian, U. Schneider, F. Götz, H. Zähner, R. Kellner, and G. Jung, Nature [London] 333:276-278, 1988). The most important lantibiotics are subtilin and the food preservative nisin, which both have a very...
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