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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Characterization and heterologous expression of a class IIa bacteriocin, plantaricin 423 from Lactobacillus plantarum 423, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
International Journal of Food Microbiology, Volume 81, No. 1, Year 2003
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Lactobacillus plantarum 423 produces a small heat-stable antimicrobial protein designated plantaricin 423. This protein is bactericidal for many Gram-positive foodborne pathogens and spoilage bacteria, including Listeria spp., Staphylococcus spp., Pediococcus spp., Lactobacillus spp., etc. The DNA sequence of the plantaricin 423-encoding region on plasmid pPLA4 revealed a four open reading frame (ORF) operon structure similar to pediocin PA-1/AcH from Pediococcus acidilactici and coagulin from Bacillus coagulans I4. The first ORF, plaA, encodes a 56-amino acid prepeptide consisting of a 37-amino acid mature molecule, with a 19-amino acid N-terminal leader peptide. The second ORF, plaB, encodes a putative immunity protein with protein sequence similarities to several bacteriocin immunity proteins. The plaC and plaD genes are virtually identical to pedC and pedD of the pediocin PA-1 operon, as well as coaC and coaD of the coagulin operon. Plantaricin 423 was cloned on a shuttle vector under the control of a yeast promoter and heterologously produced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
van Reenen, Carol Ann
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Chikindas, Michael L.
United States, New Brunswick
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
van Zyl, W. H.
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Dicks, Leon Milner Theodore
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Statistics
Citations: 121
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0168-1605(02)00164-2
ISSN:
01681605
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics