| Literature DB >> 19270087 |
Christine M Sedgley1, Don B Clewell, Susan E Flannagan.
Abstract
The Enterococcus faecalis class IIa bacteriocin MC4-1 encoded by the sex pheromone-responding, multiple-antibiotic resistance plasmid pAMS1 exhibits "siblicidal" (sibling-killing) activity under certain conditions. Stabs of plasmid-containing cells on solid medium containing lawns of bacteria of the same (plasmid-containing) strain give rise to zones of inhibition. If the plasmid-containing host also produces gelatinase, bacteriocin cannot be detected.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19270087 PMCID: PMC2681816 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00147-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490