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. 1996 May;62(5):1831–1834. doi: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1831-1834.1996

Nisin stimulates oxygen consumption by Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.

A M Carneiro de Melo 1, G M Cook 1, R J Miles 1, R K Poole 1
PMCID: PMC167960  PMID: 8633884

Abstract

Nisin stimulated oxygen consumption by nongrowing, glucose-metabolizing Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli cells, indicating a protonophore mode of action. A similar stimulation in E. coli cells osmotically stressed to disrupt the outer cell membrane confirmed the cytoplasmic membrane as the site of nisin action and showed that nisin uptake was not prevented by the outer membrane.

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