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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8970-8973, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8970-8973.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Phage Tail-Like (High-Molecular-Weight) Bacteriocins of Budvicia aquatica and Pragia fontium (Enterobacteriaceae)

Jan Smarda1 and Oldrich Benada2*

Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Tomesova 12, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic,1 Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídenská 1083, CZ-142 20 Praha 4-Krc, Czech Republic2

Received 2 May 2005/ Accepted 1 September 2005

Electron microscopic analysis of contractile phage tail-like bacteriocins of three Pragia fontium strains and one Budvicia aquatica strain was performed. Fonticin and aquaticin are remarkably heat sensitive but trypsin resistant. Simultaneous production of contractile and flexible phage tail-like bacteriocins in the P. fontium 64613 strain is shown for the first time.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídenská 1083, CZ-142 20 Praha 4-Krc, Czech Republic. Phone: 420-241062399. Fax: 420-241722347. E-mail: benada{at}biomed.cas.cz.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8970-8973, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8970-8973.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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