Production of novel antibiotics zeamines through optimizing Dickeya zeae fermentation conditions.

Dickeya zeae strain EC1 was recently shown to produce a new type of phytotoxins designated as zeamine and zeamine II, which are potent wide-spectrum antibiotics against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial pathogens, suggesting their promising potential as clinical medicines. In this study, the...

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Main Authors: Lisheng Liao, Yingying Cheng, Shiyin Liu, Jianuan Zhou, Shuwen An, Mingfa Lv, Yufan Chen, Yanfang Gu, Shaohua Chen, Lian-Hui Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4277462?pdf=render