Uses
Gallidermin is an antibiotic peptide. Lantibiotics are well studied because of the commercial use of these bacteria in the food industry for making dairy products such as cheese. Gallidermin is a tetracyclic, 21-amino-acid, type A lantibi- otic peptide which is produced by the nonpathogenic Staphy- lococcus gallinarum Tu ?3928 and shows broad-spectrum activity against important gram-positive pathogens like S. au- reus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Strep- tococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus faecalis, and P. acnes .
