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Peptide Synthesis> | … Bacteriocin Production Assays. For assessing bacteriocin production, cultures of L. acidophilus were grown overnight with varying concentrations of LabIP peptide, sequence: KKAPISGYVGRGLWENLSNIFKHHK (GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, United States) … | Get A Quote |
Recent reports have shown that Gram-positive bacteria actively secrete spherical nanometer-sized proteoliposome membrane vesicles (MVs) into their surroundings. Though MVs are implicated in a broad range of biological functions, few studies have been conducted to examine their potential as delivery vehicles of antimicrobials. Here, we investigate the natural ability of MVs to carry and deliver bacteriocin peptides to the opportunistic pathogen, . We demonstrate that upon treatment with lactacin B-inducing peptide, the proteome of the secreted MVs is enriched in putative bacteriocins encoded by the operon. Further, we show that purified MVs inhibit growth and compromise membrane integrity in , which is confirm... More