Bacteriocinogen

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Bacteriocinogens, also known as bacteriocinogenic plasmids, are bacterial plasmids that direct the synthesis of bacteriocins, bacterocidal proteins produced by certain types of bacteria that kill other strains of the same species or closely related species. [1] [2] [3] [4] Normally the bacteriocinogen is repressed and doesn't express bacteriocin, but under certain conditions the plasmid is derepressed in a complex and poorly understood manner. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Gooch, Jan W., ed. (2010). Encyclopedia dictionary of polymers (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer. p. 877. ISBN   978-1-4419-6246-1.
  2. ↑ Stuitje, AR; Veltkamp, E; van den Elzen, PJ; Nijkamp, HJ (June 1978). "In vitro construction of deletion mutants of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid Clo DF13". Nucleic Acids Research. 5 (6): 1801–20. doi:10.1093/nar/5.6.1801. PMC   342126 . PMID   353730.
  3. ↑ PATERSON, A. C. (1 June 1965). "Bacteriocinogeny and Lysogeny in the Genus Pseudomonas". Journal of General Microbiology. 39 (3): 295–303. doi: 10.1099/00221287-39-3-295 . PMID   5864527.
  4. ↑ Miyoshi, Yasushi; Higa, Akiko (March 1984). "Interrelationship between Drug Resistance and Bacteriocinogeny of". Microbiology and Immunology. 28 (3): 281–289. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1984.tb00680.x . PMID   6330503.
  5. ↑ Jacquelyn G. Black. 2008. Microbiology: principles and explorations, 7th ed. Wiley,USA


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