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Plantaricin W from belongs to a new family of two-peptide lantibiotics

The GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AY007251.

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Plantaricin W (Plw) is a new two-peptide bacteriocin, from , which inhibits a large number of Gram-positive bacteria. The two peptides, Plwα (comprising 29 residues) and Plwβ (comprising 32 residues), were isolated from the culture supernatants and characterized. The individual peptides had low antimicrobial activity but acted synergistically, and synergism was seen at all mixing ratios tested. The data indicate that the two peptides work in a 1:1 ratio. Chemical analyses showed that both peptides are lantibiotics, but two unmodified cysteines and one serine residue were present in Plwα, and Plwβ contained one cysteine residue. The Plw structural genes were sequenced and shown to encode prepeptides with sequence similarities to two other two-peptide lantibiotics, namely staphylococcin C55 and lacticin 3147. The conserved residues are mainly serines, threonines and cysteines that can be involved in intramolecular thioether bond formation in the C-terminal parts of the molecules. This indicates that these bacteriocins are members of a new family of lantibiotics with common bridging patterns, and that the ring structures play an important functional role. Based on the data a structural model is presented in which each peptide has a central lanthionine and two overlapping thioether bridges close to their C-termini.

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Keyword(s): BU, bacteriocin unit , Dha, 2,3-didehydroalanine , Dhb, 2,3-didehydrobutyrine , lactic acid bacteria , Lan, lanthionine , MeLan, 3-methyllanthionine , Plw, plantaricin W , TFA, trifluoroacetic acid and two-peptide bacteriocin
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Plantaricin W from Lactobacillus plantarum belongs to a new family of two-peptide lantibioticsThe GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AY007251.
Microbiology 147, 643 (2001); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-147-3-643
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