Reincarnation of Bacteriocins From the Lactobacillus Pangenomic Graveyard

Bacteria commonly produce narrow spectrum bacteriocins as a means of inhibiting closely related species competing for similar resources in an environment. The increasing availability of genomic data means that it is becoming easier to identify bacteriocins encoded within genomes. Often, however, the...

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Main Authors: Fergus W. J. Collins, Beatriz Mesa-Pereira, Paula M. O'Connor, Mary C. Rea, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01298/full