The Ecological Role of Antibiotic Production in Bacteria
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 4023
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear esteemed colleagues,
Antibiotic research has made huge progress, especially in the middle decades of the 20th century, resulting in the discovery of many novel antibiotics. To date, most of the compounds with antimicrobial activity were obtained from soil- bacteria. In bacterial communities, inter-specific competition for nutrients is a major type of interaction. An important survival strategy in this competition is interference competition, which is the production of secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity that can suppress or kill microbial opponents. In nature, antibiotics may be produced after receiving specific environmental signals or signals from surrounding microorganisms. So far, there is no scientific consensus on the ecological role of antibiotics and why they are produced. With this Special Issue, we would like to give an overview of the current status of antibiotic discovery from bacteria and the ecological role of antibiotic production in bacteria.
We invite authors to submit original research and review articles regarding the discovery of novel antimicrobial compounds from bacteria and their ecological role in bacteria including, but not limited to the following topics:
- Antibiotic production in bacteria
- Antimicrobial activity
- Ecological role of antibiotics
- Microbial ecology
- Inter-specific bacterial interactions
- Screening for novel secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity
- Novel natural products from bacteria
This Special Issue of the Antibiotics Journal aims to reflect the current status of antibiotic discovery from bacteria and the ecological role of antibiotic production in bacteria. Here we aim to bring together biologists, microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, and bioinformaticians to highlight the progress in the field of antibiotic research in microbial ecology.
Dr. Olaf Tyc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobials
- antimicrobial activity
- soil-bacteria
- secondary metabolites
- volatiles
- microbial interactions
- microbial ecology
- natural products
- competition
- microbial ecology
