Expression of the lantibiotic mersacidin in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42.

UNLABELLED: Lantibiotics are small peptide antibiotics that contain the characteristic thioether amino acids lanthionine and methyllanthionine. As ribosomally synthesized peptides, lantibiotics possess biosynthetic gene clusters which contain the structural gene (lanA) as well as the other genes whi...

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Main Authors: Anna Maria Herzner, Jasmin Dischinger, Christiane Szekat, Michaele Josten, Stephanie Schmitz, Anja Yakéléba, Ricarda Reinartz, Andrea Jansen, Hans-Georg Sahl, Jörn Piel, Gabriele Bierbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3141056?pdf=render