Isolation and biochemical characterization of a novel lantibiotic mutacin from Streptococcus mutans
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Isolation and biochemical characterization of a novel lantibiotic mutacin from Streptococcus mutans.
Certain members of the indigenous biota of humans produce antimicrobial substances called bacteriocins, which inhibit other bacteria, including members of their own species. One of these substances, mutacin, is made by Streptococcus mutans, a member of the oral biota. Mutacin inhibits other mutans streptococci as well as many gram-positive exogenous pathogens. Here, we report for the first time...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.14.4316-4320.1994