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Isolation and structure of the sex pheromone inhibitor, iAM373, of Enterococcus faecalis
1Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
An Enterococcus faecalis plasmid, pAM373, has a high frequency of transfer in a liquid medium when induced by a recipient-produced sex pheromone, cAM373. The sex pheromone inhibitor against cAM373, termed iAM373, was isolated from a culture supernatant of E. faecalis harboring pAM377 (= pAM373::Tn917), and its structure was identified as a heptapeptide, H-Ser-Ile-Phe-Thr-Leu-Val-Ala-OH).