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Brevicin 27, a bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus brevis SB27, is inhibitory mainly against closely related Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus büchneri strains. It was purified from the culture supernatant by a four-step purification procedure including ammonium sulfate precipitation, cation exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and reverse-phase, high performance liquid chromatographies. The purified bacteriocin was subjected to mass spectrometry, amino acid composition analysis, and sequencing by Edman degradation. It was shown to be an about 5200-Da basic protein containing a high proportion of lysine and of hydrophobic amino acids. The partial N-terminal amino acid sequence (25 residues) was unique when compared with the Protein Data Bank (PDB), Swiss Prot, and Protein Information Resource (PIR) data banks and to the translated Gen Bank.
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Received: 24 July 1996 / Accepted: 10 September 1996
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Benoit, V., Lebrihi, A., Millière, JB. et al. Purification and Partial Amino Acid Sequence of Brevicin 27, a Bacteriocin Produced by Lactobacillus brevis SB27 . Curr Microbiol 34 , 173 –179 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002849900164
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002849900164