Bacteriocins

Bacteriocides are protein molecules that are produced by certain types of bacteria and are capable of suppressing the activity of other bacteria of the same species. In this article we will look at what bacteriocides are and how they work.

Bacterioids are small proteins that can be synthesized by various types of bacteria. They have the ability to inhibit the growth and development of other bacteria that may be in close proximity to them. Bacterioids can be used as natural antibiotics to fight bacterial infections.

One of the best known examples of bacterioids is the bacteriocides called colicin. Colicin is a protein that is produced by some strains of E. coli and has the ability to kill other strains of the same bacterium. Colicins can also be used to control other types of bacteria such as staphylococci and streptococci.

Another example of bacteriocides is Enterococcus, which produces the protein enterococcid. Enterococid is able to inhibit the growth of other types of enterococci, which may be useful in combating infections caused by these bacteria.

In general, bacteroides are an important component of the immune system of many bacterial species and can be used to protect against other bacterial species. However, it must be remembered that bacteroids can also be harmful to humans, so precautions must be taken when using these substances.

Bacteriocin is a natural antibiotic that is synthesized by various types of bacteria. It has a broad spectrum of action and is used to protect against infections caused by other microorganisms. Bacteriocins are produced (synthesized) by different soils and form small, odorless and colorless substances that belong to the group BACTERIOCINO-LIKE HORMONES and are called bacteriodynamic substances or bacterioicides.

Bacteriocin-like antibiotics exhibit biological activity not only against those microbes that produced the bacteriocinoids themselves, but also against those pathogens that are genetically related to these microorganisms. This property significantly expands the range of biological activity of these antibiotics, since most microorganisms known to us have fifty to a couple hundred suppressor genes - bacteria that temporarily slow down the division of antagonist bacteria. And while the reproduction of some is restrained, other bacteria of the host microflora, on the contrary, are activated, showing their pathogenic activity. Not only achromotrichi bacteria show themselves to be bacteriodicides, but also, for example, even gall bacteria. This rather big discovery was made not long ago by biochemist Jacques Rendon from France. He found that bacteriocides (bacteriotocin) are present in those colonies of gall bacteria in which the activity of suppressor genes is under the control of cytochrome oxidase, which is responsible for electron transfer. It is also very interesting that some bacteria that release such a bacterioticide into the environment, after some time, simultaneously begin to secrete inhibitors that inhibit the bacteriotocin itself. If you use bacteriotocin against pathogens caused by endotoxins from the Pseudomonas group, it acts more effectively than antibiotics, reduces the microbial number and the number of purulent complications. Now in medicine there is a whole arsenal of bactericins, including: Azlocillin, Piperacillin, Canseletsin, Xinacillocin and Phenazencillin. Bactericides are another mechanism by which representatives of different antagonistic groups compete with each other for resources and territories at the cellular level.