Genome Sequencing Reveals a Large and Diverse Repertoire of Antimicrobial Peptides

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Competition among bacterial members of the same ecological niche is mediated by bacteriocins: antimicrobial peptides produced by bacterial species to kill other bacteria. Bacteriocins are also promising candidates for novel antimicrobials. Streptococcus pneumoniae (the ‘pneumococcus’) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and a frequent coloniser of the human nasopharynx. Here, 14...