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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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01298/full |