Purification and characterization of three novel plasmid-born bacteriocins (curvalicins 28) produced by Lactobacillus curvatus CWBI-B28

Hakim Ghalfi, Noreddine Benkerroum*, Marc Ongena, Jozef Van Beeumen, Bernard Wathelet, Isabel Vandenberghe, Maryam Bensaid and Philippe Thonart Unite de Bio-Industries, Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2 Passage de Deportes, B-5030, Gembloux, Belgium; Departement des Sciences Alimentaires et Nutritionnelles, Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II, Instituts, 10101, Rabat, Morocco; Centre Wallon de Bio-Industries, Universite de liege, Bâtiment B40, 4000, Liege, Belgium; Laboratory of Protein Biochemistry and Protein Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Gent, Belgium; Unite de Chimie Biologique Industrielle, Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2 Passage de Deportes, B-5030, Gembloux, Belgium; *Author for correspondence (e-mail: nbenkerroum@yahoo.fr; phone: +212 37 77 17 59; fax: +212 37 77 81 35)