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Abstract

strain K8 was shown to produce a newly identified type AII lantibiotic, mutacin K8. The mutacin K8-encoding locus consists of 13 ORFs, three of which (, and ) have close homology to , the structural gene encoding the lantibiotic SA-FF22, and another (′) resembles ′, an ORF in the SA-FF22 locus that has no currently assigned function. Inactivation of the locus indicated that mutacin K8 is responsible for most of the inhibitory activity produced by strain K8 in deferred antagonism tests on Columbia blood agar base supplemented with 5 % human blood and 0.1 % CaCO. By contrast, on tryptic soy agar plus 2 % yeast extract and 0.5 % CaCO most of the inhibitory activity of strain K8 appeared to be attributable either to mutacin IV or to some other inhibitory peptide(s) exported by the mutacin IV transporter . An inhibitory peptide purified from a derivative of strain K8 in which had been inactivated had a mass of 2734 Da and an N-terminal sequence identical to the predicted propeptide translation products of and . The locus may be widely distributed in , since 9 (35 %) of 26 strains tested contained at least part of the locus. In the genome sequence of strain UA159 the locus is incomplete, the sole residual components being the ORFs encoding the putative two-component regulatory system (SMU.1815) and (SMU.1814), followed by two transposases (SMU.1813 and SMU.1812) and then the ORFs (SMU.1811), (SMU.1810) and (SMU.1809), thought to encode putative immunity peptides. Strains such as UA159 having incomplete loci did not produce detectable levels of mutacin K8.

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