Christina S Lazebnik, Dianna B Kosyan, Inara E Laryushina

Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2023. Vol. 106, no 2. Р. 185-197.

 

doi:10.33284/2658-3135-106-2-185

 

Review article

Antibacterial activity and Quorum quenching mechanisms of the genus Bacillus

 

Christina S Lazebnik1, Dianna B Kosyan2, Inara E Laryushina3

1,2,3Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia

1christinakondrashova94@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-9656

2 kosyan.diana@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-108X

3inhip@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-4535

 

Abstract. Violation of the digestive tract of animals and poultry is one of the urgent problems in agriculture. An effective strategy for the treatment and prevention of diseases of the digestive system is the development and introduction into veterinary practice of new highly effective probiotic preparations. Probiotics have emerged as a potential alternative to antibiotics and are generally considered safe for the health of the host. Cell-to-cell communication, including between pathogenic and probiotic bacteria, is based on complex mechanisms of regulation of gene expression, which depend on the density of the bacterial population. The combination of such mechanisms is called “quorum sensing”. The phenomenon of quorum sensing involves the biosynthesis and release of signaling molecules of various chemical structures (autoinducers), the threshold concentration of which triggers a biological response. The review presents the main mechanisms of suppression of the bacterial quorum sensing and the ways of practical application of this phenomenon in agriculture. One such route is the use of bacterial strains of the genus Bacillus, which produce a diverse array of antimicrobial peptides that differ in chemical structure. Bacteriocins produced by strains of the genus Bacillus can be considered as second in importance after bacteriocins of lactobacilli. A large number of probiotic preparations have been created for medical and veterinary use based on bacilli strains.

Keywords: quorum sensing, quorum quenching, genus Bacillus, bacteriocins

Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project     No. 22-26-00294.

For citation: Lazebnik CS, Kosyan DB, Laryushina IE. Antibacterial activity and Quorum quenching mechanisms of the genus Bacillus (review). Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2023;106(2):185-197. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.33284/2658-3135-106-2-185

 

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Information about the authors:

Christina S Lazebnik, Post-graduate student, Researcher, Laboratory of Breeding and Genetic Research in Animal Husbandry, Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29, 9 Yanvarya St., Orenburg, 460000.

Dianna B Kosyan, Cand. Sci. (Biology), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Breeding and Genetic Research in Animal Husbandry, Federal Research Centre for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29, 9 Yanvarya St., Orenburg, 460000.

Inara E Laryushina, Cand. Sci. (Medicine), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Breeding and Genetic Research in Animal Husbandry, Federal Research Centre for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29, 9 Yanvarya St., Orenburg, 460000.

 

The article was submitted 31.01.2023; approved after reviewing 20.03.2023; accepted for publication 13.06.2023.

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