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Properties of nisin Z and distribution of its gene, nisZ, in Lactococcus lactis.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 1993
de Vos W M, Mulders J W, Siezen R J, Hugenholtz J, Kuipers O P
Abstract excerpt
Two natural variants of the lantibiotic nisin that are produced by Lactococcus lactis are known. They have a similar structure but differ in a single amino acid residue at position 27; histidine in nisin A and asparagine in nisin Z (J.W.M. Mulders, I.J. Boerrigter, H.S. Rollema, R.J. Siezen, and W.M. de Vos, Eur. J. Biochem, 201:581-584, 1991). The nisin variants were purified to apparent homogeneity, and their...
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