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Dissection and Modulation of the Four Distinct Activities of Nisin by Mutagenesis of Rings A and B and by C-Terminal Truncation by Rink, Rick, Wierenga, Jenny, Kuipers, Anneke, Kluskens, Leon D, Driessen, Arnold J.M, Kuipers, Oscar P, Moll, Gert N

“…Nisin A is a pentacyclic antibiotic peptide produced by various Lactococcus lactis strains. Nisin displays four different activities: (i) it autoinduces its…”
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Production of Dehydroamino Acid-Containing Peptides by Lactococcus lactis by Rink, Rick, Wierenga, Jenny, Kuipers, Anneke, Kluskens, Leon D, Driessen, Arnold J.M, Kuipers, Oscar P, Moll, Gert N

“…Nisin is a pentacyclic peptide antibiotic produced by some Lactococcus lactis strains. Nisin contains dehydroresidues and thioether rings that are…”
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Sec-Mediated Transport of Posttranslationally Dehydrated Peptides in Lactococcus lactis by Kuipers, Anneke, Wierenga, Jenny, Rink, Rick, Kluskens, Leon D, Driessen, Arnold J.M, Kuipers, Oscar P, Moll, Gert N

“…Nisin is a lanthionine-containing antimicrobial peptide produced by Lactococcus lactis. Its (methyl)lanthionines are introduced by two posttranslational…”
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Mechanistic Dissection of the Enzyme Complexes Involved in Biosynthesis of Lacticin 3147 and Nisin by Kuipers, Anneke, Meijer-Wierenga, Jenny, Rink, Rick, Kluskens, Leon D, Moll, Gert N

“…The thioether rings in the lantibiotics lacticin 3147 and nisin are posttranslationally introduced by dehydration of serines and threonines, followed by…”
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A Biological Porin Engineered into a Molecular, Nanofluidic Diode by Miedema, Henk, Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Meijberg, Wim, Robillard, George, Eisenberg, Bob

“…We changed the nonrectifying biological porin OmpF into a nanofluidic diode. To that end, we engineered a pore that possesses two spatially separated…”
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Chemical Modification of the Bacterial Porin OmpF: Gain of Selectivity by Volume Reduction by Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Meijberg, Wim, Miedema, Henk

“…OmpF is an essentially nonselective porin isolated from the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. Here we report on the manipulation of the ion selectivity of…”
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Permeation properties of an engineered bacterial OmpF porin containing the EEEE-locus of Ca2+ channels by Miedema, Henk, Meter-Arkema, Anita, Wierenga, Jenny, Tang, John, Eisenberg, Bob, Nonner, Wolfgang, Hektor, Hans, Gillespie, Dirk, Meijberg, Wim

“…The selectivity filter of the bacterial porin OmpF carries a small net charge close to -1 e and is therefore only slightly cation-selective. Calcium channels,…”
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Ca^sup 2+^ Selectivity of a Chemically Modified OmpF with Reduced Pore Volume by Miedema, Henk, Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Gillespie, Dirk

“…We studied an E. coli OmpF mutant (LECE) containing both an EEEE-like locus, typical of Ca^sup 2+^ channels, and an accessible and reactive cysteine. After…”
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Ca2+ selectivity of a chemically modified OmpF with reduced pore volume by Miedema, Henk, Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Gillespie, Dirk, Eisenberg, Bob, Meijberg, Wim, Nonner, Wolfgang

“…We studied an E. coli OmpF mutant (LECE) containing both an EEEE-like locus, typical of Ca(2+) channels, and an accessible and reactive cysteine. After…”
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Permeation Properties of an Engineered Bacterial OmpF Porin Containing the EEEE-Locus of Ca^sup 2+^ Channels by Miedema, Henk, Meter-Arkema, Anita, Wierenga, Jenny, Tang, John

“…The selectivity filter of the bacterial porin OmpF carries a small net charge close to -1 e and is therefore only slightly cation-selective. Calcium channels,…”
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Ca 2+ Selectivity of a Chemically Modified OmpF with Reduced Pore Volume by Miedema, Henk, Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Gillespie, Dirk, Eisenberg, Bob, Meijberg, Wim, Nonner, Wolfgang

“…We studied an E. coli OmpF mutant (LECE) containing both an EEEE-like locus, typical of Ca 2+ channels, and an accessible and reactive cysteine. After chemical…”
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Conductance and selectivity fluctuations in D127 mutants of the bacterial porin OmpF by Miedema, Henk, Vrouenraets, Maarten, Wierenga, Jenny, Eisenberg, Bob, Schirmer, Tilman, Baslé, Arnaud, Meijberg, Wim

“…A recent molecular dynamics study questioned the protonation state and physiological role of aspartate 127 (D127) of E. coli porin OmpF. To address that…”
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Permeation Properties of an Engineered Bacterial OmpF Porin Containing the EEEE-Locus of Ca 2+ Channels by Miedema, Henk, Meter-Arkema, Anita, Wierenga, Jenny, Tang, John, Eisenberg, Bob, Nonner, Wolfgang, Hektor, Hans, Gillespie, Dirk, Meijberg, Wim

“…The selectivity filter of the bacterial porin OmpF carries a small net charge close to −1 e and is therefore only slightly cation-selective. Calcium channels,…”
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