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ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2015

Lantibiotic resistance.

Lorraine A Draper, Paul D Cotter, Colin Hill, R Paul Ross

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Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82citing papers in PubMed
18.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 161 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lorraine A DraperSchool of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Paul D CotterAlimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland paul.cotter@teagasc.ie c.hill@ucc.ie.
Colin HillSchool of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland paul.cotter@teagasc.ie c.hill@ucc.ie.
R Paul RossSchool of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority · IEUniversity College Cork · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dramatic rise in the incidence of antibiotic resistance demands that new therapeutic options will have to be developed. One potentially interesting class of antimicrobials are the modified bacteriocins termed lantibiotics, which are bacterially produced, posttranslationally modified, lanthionine/methyllanthionine-containing peptides. It is interesting that low levels of resistance have been reported for lantibiotics compared with commercial antibiotics. Given that there are very few examples of naturally occurring lantibiotic resistance, attempts have been made to deliberately induce resistance phenotypes in order to investigate this phenomenon. Mechanisms that hinder the action of lantibiotics are often innate systems that react to the presence of any cationic peptides/proteins or ones which result from cell well damage, rather than being lantibiotic specific. Such resistance mechanisms often arise due to altered gene regulation following detection of antimicrobials/cell wall damage by sensory proteins at the membrane. This facilitates alterations to the cell wall or changes in the composition of the membrane. Other general forms of resistance include the formation of spores or biofilms, which are a common mechanistic response to many classes of antimicrobials. In rare cases, bacteria have been shown to possess specific antilantibiotic mechanisms. These are often species specific and include the nisin lytic protein nisinase and the phenomenon of immune mimicry.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBacteriocinsBiofilmsMolecular MimicryNisinPenicillin-Binding ProteinsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriocinsNisinnisin APenicillin-Binding Proteins

Identifiers

PMID25787977
PMCPMC4394878
OpenAlexW4210952504

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