Table 3.

Sequence alignment of individual peptides of two-peptide bacteriocins illustrating identical or similar residues.

Peptide	Amino acid sequencea
Pls-α
Mur-α
Plantaricin Eb40
Pls-β
Mur-β
Lactococcin G-β58

^aHyphens indicate amino acids that are not present in these peptides, bold letters indicate motifs identified to be important for bacteriocin activity and underlined letters indicate conserved or similar residues in plantaricin S that correspond to the important motifs identified in the other peptides. Bold/italic and italic boxes illustrate amino acids that are identical or similar, respectively, to the individual peptides of plantaricin S.

^bThere are at least two ways that plantaricin E⁴⁰ can be aligned with Pls-α.

^cNumbering with regards to the sequence of plantaricin S.