This study demonstrates the rapidity with which novel bacteriocin
sequences can be identified using a PCR array to quickly amplify and
provide DNA sequence information from uncharacterized bacteriocinproducing
strains. This process may minimize duplicative efforts to
study bacteriocins that are already well-characterized and for which
sequence information exists in GenBank. Every bacteriocin-producing
strain of LAB that was subjected to the bacteriocin PCR array provided
amplification with one ormore pairs of primers and sequence data quickly
demonstrated whether the bacteriocin was previously characterized