Abstract
Of the bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria, nisin (Fig. 1) is the best-characterized representative. Nisin is a 34 amino acid Polypeptide (Gross & Morell, 1971) produced by a number of, usually atypical, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis strains (Hirsch, 1953; De Vos et al., 1993). Two natural variants of nisin are known, nisin A (Gross & Morell, 1971) and nisin Z (Mulders et al., 1991), which differ in a single amino acid residue at position 27 (aspartic acid in nisin A and histidine in nisin Z; Fig. 1). The structural genes for nisin A and nisin Z (nisA and nisZ, respectively) have been found to differ by a single mutation (see section 3.1). The two nisin variants appear to have the same biological activities, but nisin Z appears to have different diffusion properties from nisin A (De Vos et al., 1993). Nisin is the most prominent member of the group of bacteriocin-like peptides called lantibiotics (Schnell et al., 1988). Lantibiotics are ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial Polypeptides, produced by Gram-positive bacteria, which contain the thioether amino acids lanthionine and 3-methyl-lanthionine (see Jung (1991a, b) for recent reviews). On the basis of their different types of ring structures and their differences in molecular weights, they have been classified into the two subgroups, type A and type B, nisin being a type A lantibiotic. Other members of this group include subtilin (Gross & Kiltz, 1973) produced by Bacillus subtilis, epidermin (Allgaier et al., 1985, 1986) and Pep5 (Kellner et al., 1989), both produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis, and the L. lactis subsp. lactis bacteriocin lacticin 481 (see Chapter 7, this volume; Piard et al., 1992; 1993).
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Rauch, P.J.G., Kuipers, O.P., Siezen, R.J., De Vos, W.M. (1994). Genetics and Protein Engineering of Nisin. In: De Vuyst, L., Vandamme, E.J. (eds) Bacteriocins of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2668-1_6
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive