Table 2.

Bacteriocins produced by carnobacteria

Species	Bacteriocin (class)*	Gene	Unprocessed precursor/ mature chain†	Location of gene	Accession number	References
Cm‡	Carnobacteriocin A (IIc)	cbnA	71/53	Plasmid	P38578	Worobo et al. (1994)
	Piscicolin 61§					Holck et al. (1994)
	Carnobacteriocin BM1 (IIa)	cbnBM1	61/43	Chromosome	P38579	Quadri et al. (1994)
	Carnobacteriocin B1§
	Piscicocin V1b§					Bhugaloo-Vial et al. (1996)
	Carnocin CP51§					Herbin et al. (1997)
	Carnobacteriocin B2 (IIa)	cbnB2	66/48	Plasmid	P38580	Quadri et al. (1994)
						Wang et al. (1999)
	Carnocin CP52§					Herbin et al. (1997)
	A9b§					Nilsson et al. (2002)
	Piscicolin 126 (IIa)	pisA	62/44	Chromosome	P80569	Jack et al. (1996)
	Piscicocin V1a§					Bhugaloo-Vial et al. (1996)
						Gursky et al. (2006)
	Piscicocin CS526 (IIa)	ND	X/≥43	ND		Yamazaki et al. (2005)
Cd	Divercin V41 (IIa)	dvn41	66/43	Chromosome	CAA11804	Métivier et al. (1998)
	Divergicin M35 (IIa)	ND	X/43	ND	P84962	Tahiri et al. (2004)
	Divergicin A (IIc)	dvnA	75/46	Plasmid	AAZ29031	Worobo et al. (1995)
						van Belkum & Stiles (2006)
	Divergicin 750 (IIc)	dvn750	63/34	Plasmid	2209292A	Holck et al. (1996)
Carnobacterium sp.	Carnocin H (II)	ND	Partial sequence¶	ND		Blom et al. (2001)
	Carnocin UI149 (I)	ND	Partial sequence∥	ND	P36960	Stoffels et al. (1992b)

^*Classification of bacteriocins based on review by Drider et al. (2006).

^†Numbers of amino acids.

^‡Carnobacterium divergens (Cd), Carnobacterium maltaromaticum (Cm).

^§Synonyms.

^¶Approximately 75 amino acids.

^∥35–37 amino acids.

ND, not determined.