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Science 16 November 1984:
Vol. 226. no. 4676, pp. 849 - 850
DOI: 10.1126/science.6436978
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Science, Vol 226, Issue 4676, 849-850
Copyright © 1984 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Isolation and structure of bacterial sex pheromone, cPD1

A Suzuki, M Mori, Y Sakagami, A Isogai, M Fujino, C Kitada, RA Craig, and DB Clewell

The Streptococcus faecalis sex pheromone cPD1, which induces a mating response in cells harboring the conjugative plasmid pPD1, has been isolated and its structure determined. It was found to have a molecular weight of 912, and its amino acid sequence was H-Phe-Leu-Val-Met-Phe-Leu-Ser-Gly-OH. A synthetic octapeptide showed the same biological activity and chromatographic behavior as the isolated cPD1. Pheromone activity was detectable at a concentration of approximately 4 X 10(-11)M.


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Functional Analysis of TraA, the Sex Pheromone Receptor Encoded by pPD1, in a Promoter Region Essential for the Mating Response in Enterococcus faecalis.
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