any protein-based toxin given off by bacteria to prevent the growth of related bacteria nearby
Examples of 'bacteriocin' in a sentence
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Nineteen of these differences were capsular genes and 9 bacteriocin genes.
Fen Z. Hu, Rory Eutsey, Azad Ahmed, Nelson Frazao, Evan Powell, N. Luisa Hiller, ToddHillman, Farrel J. Buchinsky, Robert Boissy, Benjamin Janto, Jennifer Kress-Bennett,Mark Longwell, Suzanne Ezzo, J. Christopher Post, Mirjana Nesin, Alexander Tomasz,Garth D. Ehrlich 2012, 'In Vivo Capsular Switch in Streptococcus pneumoniae – Analysis by Whole Genome Sequencing',PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0047983. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These clusters encoded 290 putative bacteriocin precursors.
Hao Wang, David P. Fewer, Kaarina Sivonen 2011, 'Genome Mining Demonstrates the Widespread Occurrence of Gene Clusters Encoding Bacteriocinsin Cyanobacteria', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0022384. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This counter-intuitive outcome might explain the preponderance of weak bacteriocin producers in nature.
Hadeel Majeed, Adam Lampert, Lusine Ghazaryan, Osnat Gillor 2013, 'The weak shall inherit: bacteriocin-mediated interactions in bacterial populations.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3660564?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Therefore, this isolated bacterium can be regarded as bacteriocin producing bacteria.
Siriporn Kaewklom, Seksun Samosornsuk, Duangnate Pipatsatitpong, Ratchaneewan Aunpad 2013, 'Colicin type 7 produced by majority of Shigella sonnei isolated from Thai patientswith diarrhoea', Brazilian Journal of Microbiologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822013000300010&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among the 160 strains 22 strains were observed as positive bacteriocin producers.
V. Sumathi, D. Reetha 2009, 'Isolation and Screening of bacteriocin producing lactic acid bacteria from milk andmilk products', Journal of Ecobiotechnologyhttps://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/jebt/article/view/5. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Inhibiting their bacteriocin synthesis might therefore be a useful strategy to eliminate specific pathogens.
Priyanka Premnath, Michael Reck, Kathrin Wittstein, Marc Stadler, Irene Wagner-Döbler 2018, 'Screening for inhibitors of mutacin synthesis in Streptococcus mutans using fluorescentreporter strains', BMC Microbiologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-018-1170-3. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The best scores were for cutting fillets with the bacteriocin treatment.
Héctor Suárez M, Sandra Pardo C, Misael Cortes R 2008, 'ANÁLISIS ESTRUCTURAL DE FILETES SAJADOS DE HÍBRIDO DE CACHAMA Piaractus braquypomusx Colossoma macropomum UTILIZANDO BACTERIOCINAS PRODUCIDAS POR Lactobacillus plantarumLPBM10 EMPACADO AL VACÍO', Revista MVZ Cordobahttp://www.unicordoba.edu.co/revistas/revistamvz/mvz-132/v13n2a6.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The database provides a manually curated annotation of bacteriocin sequences.
Ben Hamida Jeannette, Le Lay Christophe, Zouhir Abdelmajid, Hammami Riadh, Fliss Ismail 2010, 'BACTIBASE second release: a database and tool platform for bacteriocin characterization',BMC Microbiologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/10/22. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A total of 145 bacteriocin gene clusters were discovered through genome mining.
Hao Wang, David P Fewer, Kaarina Sivonen 2011, 'Genome mining demonstrates the widespread occurrence of gene clusters encoding bacteriocinsin cyanobacteria.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3140520?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)