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CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 183-187Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-4545-2
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An isolate of Lactococcus lactis from fermented milk was found to produce a bacteriocin peptide. The isolate could grow in a medium with an initial pH of 11.0, in which it produced the bacteriocin extracellularly at the highest level. The level of the bacteriocin in the medium increased in parallel to the bacterial growth and reached its peak during the late exponential phase; thereafter it plateaued. The bacteriocin had a broad antibacterial spectrum similar to that of nisin and inhibited several related species of lactic acid bacteria and other Gram-positive bacteria. The inhibitory activity of the bacteriocin was found to be stable over a wide range of pH and temperature. The molecular weight of the peptide was judged to be 2.5 kDa by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
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