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Bacitracin

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Mechanism of Action

Part of the book series: Antibiotics ((ANTIBIOTICS,volume 1))

Abstract

Bacitracin is produced by strains of Bacillus licheniformis. The commercial product contains a main component, bacitracin A (Fig. 1), and at least nine additional closely related polypeptides (Regna, 1959)- In neutral or slightly alkaline solution, bacitracin A is slowly transformed into bacitracin F (Fig. 2) (Regna, 1959) which has very little antibacterial activity (Hickey, 1964).

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    David Gottlieb (Professor of Plant Pathology) & Paul D. Shaw (Associate Professor of Biochemistry) (Professor of Plant Pathology) &  (Associate Professor of Biochemistry)

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Weinberg, E.D. (1967). Bacitracin. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Mechanism of Action. Antibiotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46051-7_5

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