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SUBMITTER: Dai G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC93294 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20011101 11
This study reports on the identification and characterization of a novel abortive infection system, AbiU, from Lactococcus lactis. AbiU confers resistance to phages from the three main industrially relevant lactococcal phage species: c2, 936, and P335. The presence of AbiU reduced the efficiency of plaquing against specific phage from each species as follows: 3.7 x 10(-1), 1.0 x 10(-2), and 1.0 x 10(-1), respectively. abiU involves two open reading frames, abiU1 (1,772 bp) and abiU2 (1,019 bp). ...[more]