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POLYMERS
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 1282-1296Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym3031282
Keywords
nisin; lantibiotic; peptide; cyclization; Lactococcus
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The pentacyclic peptide antibiotic nisin, produced by Lactococcus lactis is ubiquitously applied as a food preservative. We previously demonstrated that the truncated nisin-(1-22) has only 10-fold lower activity than nisin. Here we aimed at further developing this tricyclic nisin analog to reach activity comparable to that of nisin. Our data demonstrate that: (1) ring A has a large mutational freedom; (2) the composition of residues 20-22 strongly affects production levels of nisin-(1-22); (3) a positively charged C-terminus of nisin-(1-22) significantly enhances its antimicrobial activity; (4) nisin-(1-22) inhibits in vitro growth of a target strain using different dynamics than nisin.
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