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SUBMITTER: Qi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC91075 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qi F F Chen P P Caufield P W PW
Applied and environmental microbiology 19990201 2
The lantibiotic bacteriocin mutacin II is produced by the group II Streptococcus mutans. The mutacin II biosynthetic locus consists of seven genes, mutR, -A, -M, -T, -F, -E, and -G, organized as two operons. The mutAMTFEG operon is transcribed from the mutA promoter 55 bp upstream of the translation start codon for MutA, while the mutR promoter is 76 bp upstream of the mutR structural gene. Expression of the mutA promoter is regulated by the components of the growth medium, while the mutR promot ...[more]