Bacteriocinogen

'''Bacteriocinogens''', also known as '''bacteriocinogenic plasmids''', are bacterial plasmids that direct the synthesis of bacteriocins, bacterocidal proteins produced by certain types of bacteria that kill other strains of the same species or closely related species.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Gooch|editor-first1=Jan W.|title=Encyclopedia dictionary of polymers.|date=2010|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin|isbn=978-1-4419-6246-1|page=877|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Stuitje|first1=AR|last2=Veltkamp|first2=E|last3=van den Elzen|first3=PJ|last4=Nijkamp|first4=HJ|title=In vitro construction of deletion mutants of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid Clo DF13.|journal=Nucleic Acids Research|date=June 1978|volume=5|issue=6|pages=1801–20|pmid=353730|doi=10.1093/nar/5.6.1801|pmc=342126}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=PATERSON|first1=A. C.|title=Bacteriocinogeny and Lysogeny in the Genus Pseudomonas|journal=Journal of General Microbiology|date=1 June 1965|volume=39|issue=3|pages=295–303|doi=10.1099/00221287-39-3-295|doi-access=free|pmid=5864527 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Miyoshi|first1=Yasushi|last2=Higa|first2=Akiko|title=Interrelationship between Drug Resistance and Bacteriocinogeny of|journal=Microbiology and Immunology|date=March 1984|volume=28|issue=3|pages=281–289|doi=10.1111/j.1348-0421.1984.tb00680.x|doi-access=free|pmid=6330503 }}</ref> Normally, the bacteriocinogen is repressed and doesn't express bacteriocin, but under certain conditions the plasmid is derepressed in a complex and poorly understood manner.<ref>Jacquelyn G. Black. 2008. Microbiology: principles and explorations, 7th ed. Wiley,USA</ref>

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