bacteriocin production

traitmech:000183 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A physiological trait in which bacteria produce bacteriocins, ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides or proteins that kill or inhibit other bacteria.

Trait evidence (3)

DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00461
Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria, which have the ability to kill or inhibit other bacteria.

Rea et al. review bacteriocins as bacterially produced ribosomal antimicrobial peptides.
DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.161024
the most abundant and diverse family of microbial defense systems: the bacteriocins.

Riley and Wertz support bacteriocins as a widespread, diverse microbial defense-system family.
DOI:10.1038/srep27973
Traditionally, nisin was produced industrially by using Lactococcus lactis in the neutral fermentation process.

Zhang et al. support Lactococcus lactis as an industrial nisin-producing bacterium.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00461

Parent traits (1)

phenotype METPO:1000059

Cross-references

GO:0030152

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Canonical examples (1)

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Lactococcus lactis NCBITaxon:1358 DOI:10.1038/srep27973 Lactococcus lactis is used as a canonical nisin-producing bacterium in neutral fermentation.

Curation history

2026-09-14T05:04:06Z · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex
Minted bacteriocin production as a DOI-backed TraitRecord after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files; METPO has no exact bacteriocin production class yet and the placeholder is reserved in proposals/metpo_traitmech_v60.
2026-09-14T05:16:59Z · ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW_REPAIR · codex
Resolved PR #899 review issue #900 by grounding bacteriocin production to GO:0030152 and removing the obsolete xref-gap TODO.