African Journal of
Microbiology Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Microbiol. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0808
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJMR
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 5238

Review

Bacteriocins of Gram-positive bacteria: Features and biotherapeutic approach

David Francisco Lafuente-Rincon
  • David Francisco Lafuente-Rincon
  • Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Autonomous University of Nuevo León. Av. Universidad s/n, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León 66451, Mexico.
  • Google Scholar
Tania Elizabeth Velasquez Chavez
  • Tania Elizabeth Velasquez Chavez
  • Bioprospecting and Bioprocessing, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Autonomous University of Coahuila. Blvd, Torreón-Matamoros Km. 7.5. Torreón, Coahuila 27276, México.
  • Google Scholar
Norma M. De la Fuente-Salcido*
  • Norma M. De la Fuente-Salcido*
  • Bioprospecting and Bioprocessing, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Autonomous University of Coahuila. Blvd, Torreón-Matamoros Km. 7.5. Torreón, Coahuila 27276, México.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 08 November 2016
  •  Accepted: 25 November 2016
  •  Published: 07 December 2016

References

Abriouel H, Franz CM, Omar NB, Gálvez A (2011). Diversity and applications of Bacillus bacteriocins. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 35:201-232.
Crossref

 

Barboza-Corona JE, De la Fuente-Salcido N, Alva-Murillo N, Ochoa-Zarzosa A, López-Meza JE (2009). Activity of bacteriocins synthesized by Bacillus thuringiensis against Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated to bovinemastitis. Vet. Microbiol. 138: 179-83.
Crossref

 

Brand AM, De Kwaadsteniet M, Dicks LMT (2010). The ability of nisin F to control Staphylococcus aureus infection in the peritoneal cavity, as studied in mice. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 5(6):645-649.
Crossref

 

Chaabouni I, Guesmi A, Cherif A (2012). Secondary Metabolites of Bacillus: Potentials in Biotechnology. In: Sansinenea E., editor. Bacillus thuringiensis biotechnology. Springer; Netherlands. pp. 347-366.
Crossref

 

Cotter PD, Ross RP, Hill C (2013). Bacteriocins-a viable alternative to antibiotics? Nature Rev. Microbiol. 11(2):95-105.
Crossref

 

Cotter PD, Hill C, Ross RP (2005). Bacteriocins: developing innate immunity for food. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 3(10):777-788.
Crossref

 

Chen H, Hoover DG (2003). Bacteriocins and their Food Applications. Compr. Rev. Food Sci. Food Saf. 2(3):82-100.
Crossref

 

Dabour N, Zihler A, Kheadr E, Lacroix C, Fliss I (2009). In vivo study on the effectiveness of pediocin PA-1 and Pediococcus acidilactici UL5 at inhibiting Listeria monocytogenes. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 133(3):225-233.
Crossref

 

De Kwaadsteniet M, Doeschate K, Dicks LMT (2009). Nisin F in the treatment of respiratory tract infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 48:65-70.
Crossref

 

De Kwaadsteniet M, ten Doeschate K, Dicks LMT (2008). Characterization of the structural gene encoding Nisin F, a new lantibiotic produced by a Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis isolate from freshwater catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74(2):547-549.
Crossref

 

De la Fuente-Salcido NM, Casados-Vázquez LE, Barboza-Corona JE (2013). Bacteriocins of Bacillus thuringiensis can expand the potential of this bacterium to other areas rather than limit its use only as microbial insecticide Can. J. Microbiol. 59:515-522.
Crossref

 

Drider D, Fimland G, Héchard Y, McMullen LM, Prévost H (2006). The continuing story of class IIa bacteriocins. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 70(2):564-82.
Crossref

 

Driessen AJM, Nouwen N (2008). Protein translocation across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 77:1-25.
Crossref

 

Dobson A, Cotter PD, Ross RP, Hill C (2012). Bacteriocin Production: a Probiotic Trait? Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78(1):1-6.
Crossref

 

Gutiérrez J, Larsen R, Cintas LM, Kok J, Hernández PE (2006). High-level heterologous production and functional expression of the sec-dependent enterocin P from Enterococcus faecium P13 in Lactococcus lactis. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 17:1-11.
Crossref

 

Huang T, Zhang X, Xiaoyu Su JP, Jin X, Guan X (2014). Aerobic Cr (VI) reduction by an indigenous soil isolate Bacillus thuringiensis BRC-ZYR2. Pedosph. 24:652-661.
Crossref

 

Kuipers A, Wirenga J, Rink R, Kluskens LD, Driessen AJM, Kuipers OP, Moll GN (2006). Sec-mediated transport of posttranslationally dehydrated peptides in Lactococcus lactis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:7626-7633.
Crossref

 

Kumar A, Prakash A, Johri BN (2011). Bacillus as PGPR in Crop Ecosystem. In: Maheshwari, D. K. (ed.) Bacteria in Agrobiology: Crop Ecosystems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Crossref

 

León-Galván MF, Barboza-Corona JE, Lechuga-Arana A, Valencia-Posadas M, Aguayo D, Cedillo-Pelaez C, Martínez-Ortega EA, Gutierrez-Chavez A (2015). Molecular detection and sensitivity to antibiotics and bacteriocins of pathogens isolated from bovine mastitis in family dairy herds of central Mexico. BioMed Res. Internat. ID 615153, 9 pages .
Crossref

 

Locher KP (2009). Review:Structure and mechanism of ATP-binding cassette transporters. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series B: Biol. Sci. 364(1514):239-245.
Crossref

 

Martin-Visscher LA, Gong X, Duszyk M, Vederas JC (2009). The three-dimensional structure of carnocyclin A Reveals that many circular bacteriocins share a common structural motif. J. Biol. Chem. 284(42):28674-28681.
Crossref

 

Kodali VP, Lingala VK, Karlapudi AP, Indira M, Venkateswarulu TC, Babu DJ (2013). Biosynthesis and potential applications of bacteriocins. J. Pure Appl. Microbiol. 7(4):2933-2945.

 

Nes IF, Yoon SS, Diep DB (2007). Ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins) in lactic acid bacteria: a review. Food Sci. Biotechnol. 16:675-690.

 

Oman J, van der Donk WA (2010). Follow the leader: the use of leader peptides to guide natural product biosynthesis. Nature Chem. Biol. 6:9-18.
Crossref

 

Orelle C, Ayvaz TM, Everly R, Klug CS, Davidson AL (2008). Both maltose-binding protein and ATP are required or nucleotide-binding domain closure in the intact maltose ABC transporter. PNAS.105(35):12837-12842.
Crossref

 

Rea MC, Dobson A, O'Sullivan O, Crispie F, Fouhy F, Cotter PD, Shanahan F, Kiely B, Hill C, Ross RP (2011). Effect of broad-and narrow-spectrum antimicrobials on Clostridium difficile and microbial diversity in a model of the distal colon. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108(1):4639-4644.
Crossref

 

Rea MC, Sit CS, Clayton E, O'Connor PM, Whittal RM, Zheng J, Hill C (2010). Thuricin CD, a posttranslationally modified bacteriocin with a narrow spectrum of activity against Clostridium difficile. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107(20):9352-9357.
Crossref

 

Rihakova J, Cappelier JM, Hue I, Demnerova K, Fédérighi M, Prévost H, Drider D (2010). In vivo activities of recombinant Divercin V41 and its structural variants against Listeria monocytogenes. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 54(1):563-564.
Crossref

 

Riley MA, Wertz JE (2002). Bacteriocins: evolution, ecology and application. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 56:117-137.
Crossref

 

Salazar-Marroquín EL, Galán-Wong LJ, Moreno-Medina VR, Reyes-López MÁ, Pereyra-Alférez B (2016). Bacteriocins synthesized by Bacillus thuringiensis: generalities and potential applications. Rev. Med. Microbiol. 27(3):95-101.
Crossref

 

Sanganna Gari RR, Frey NC, Mao C, Randall L, King GM (2013). Dynamic structure of the translocon SecYEG in membrane: direct single molecule observations. J. of Biol. Chem. 288:16848-16854.
Crossref

 

Skaugen M, Cintas LM, Nes IF (2003). Genetics of bacteriocin production in lactic acid bacteria. In: Wood BJB, Warner PJ (eds.).Genetics of lactic acid bacteria, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Nueva York, EE.UU.

 

Svetoch EA, Borzilov A, Eruslanov BV, Korobova OV, TeÄ­murazov MG, Kombarova TI, Diatlov IA (2010). Use of enterocin S760 for prevention and treatment of experimental Salmonella infection in mice. Zh. Mikrobiol. Epidemiol. Immunobiol. (5):44-48.

 

Svetoch EA, Eruslanov BV, Perelygin VV, Mitsevich EV, Mitsevich IP, Borzenkov VN, Levchuk VP, Svetoch OE, Kovalev YN, Stepanshin YG, Siragusa GR, Seal BS, Stern NJ (2008a). Diverse antimicrobial killing by Enterococcus faecium E50-52 bacteriocin. J. Agric. Food Chem. 56(6):1942-1948.
Crossref

 

Svetoch EA, Levchuk VP, Pokhilenko VD, Eruslanov BV, Mitsevich EV, Mitsevich IP, Perelygin VV, Stepanshin YG, Stern NJ (2008b). Inactivating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens by use of bacteriocins OR-7 and E 50-52. J. Clin. Microbiol. 46(11):3863-3865.
Crossref

 

Straume D, Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB (2007). Quorum-sensing based bacteriocin production is down regulated by N-terminally truncated species of gene Drider activators. Mol. Genet. Genomics 278:283-293.
Crossref

 

Wirawan RU, Swanson KM, Kleffmann T, Jack RW, Tagg JR (2007). Uberolysin: a novel cyclic bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus uberis. Microbiol 153:1619-1630.
Crossref