“…Genes encoding plantaricin are located both on a plasmid and in a chromosomal region. This information explains the diversity and characterization of plantaricin in Table 2. References Chikindas et al, 1993;Kaur and Kaur, 2015;Zacharof andLovitt, 2012 Bengtsson et al, 2020;Kristiansen et al, 2005;Oppegård et al, 2016;Xu et al, 2019Ahmad et al, 2017Collins et al, 2017;Diep et al, 2007Hata et al, 2010Perez et al, 2014;Todorov, 2009 Figure 1 Plantaricin biosynthesis gene cluster L. plantarum WCFS1; a -d. plnW, plnV, plnU, and plnT, integral membrane protein, respectively; e. plnS, two-peptide bacteriocin; f. plnH, bacteriocin ABC transporter, accessory factor plnH; g. plnG, bacteriocin ABC-transporter, ATP-binding and permease protein; h -i. plnE and plnF, two-peptide bacteriocin; j. plnD, response regulator, repressor; k. plnC, response regulator, activator; l. plnB, histidine protein kinase, sensor protein; m. plnA, precursor peptide, induction factor; n. plnQ, plantaricin biosynthesis protein; o. plnP, bacteriocin immunity protein; p. plnO, plantaricin biosynthesis protein; q. plnN, bacteriocin precursor peptide; r. plnM, bacteriocin immunity protein; s -t. plnJ and plnK, two-peptide bacteriocin plantaricin JK; u. plnL, bacteriocin immunity protein Many other plantaricins have been reported, such as plantaricin 149 (Kumagai et al, 2019), plantaricin JY22 (Lv et al, 2018), plantaricin ZJ5 (Song et al, 2014), plantaricin LPL-1 (Wang et al, 2018), plantaricin NC8 (Jiang et al, 2018), and plantaricin BM-1 (Xie et al, 2018). Their different c...…”