Autolysis of Lactococcus lactis caused by induced overproduction of its major autolysin, AcmA
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Autolysis of Lactococcus lactis caused by induced overproduction of its major autolysin, AcmA.
The optical density of a culture of lactococcus lactis MG1363 was reduced more than 60% during prolonged stationary phase. Reduction in optical density (autolysis) was almost absent in a culture of an isogenic mutant containing a deletion in the major autolysin gene, acmA. An acmA mutant carrying multiple coples of a plasmid encoding AcmA lysed to a greater extent than the wild-type strain did....
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.7.2722-2728.1997