Discussion
BLIS is a term applied to antagonistic substances, which
are incompletely defined or do not fit exactly the typical
criteria defining bacteriocins. They tend to have a broader
spectrum of activity than currently known bacteriocins. A
number of these substances were reported to be produced
by
Lactobacilli and
Lactococci, inhibiting a wide range of
both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as
of fungi [
37
–
39
].
Upon the two different kinds of cheeses analyzed, four
unclassified strains produced antibacterial compounds,
which were inactivated by proteolytic enzymes, such as
proteinase K and pronase E, indicating that they have a
protein nature and that they are bacteriocin-like inhibitory
substances. On the other hand, trypsin had no effect (except
for
L. rhamnosus FAZ 16m). Other authors also observed
different susceptibility of bacteriocins, including nisin and
bacteriocin T 81 from
Streptococcus thermophilus, to pro-
teolytic enzymes [
40
–
44
]. It was supposed that some pro-
teolytic enzymes did not affect the active domains of these
bacteriocins. According to Tagg et al. [
32
] and Jack et al.
[
33
] all the antimicrobial compounds found in this study
can be regarded as BLIS as they possess bacteriocin req-
uisites but have not yet been purified and characterized
for amino acid and encoding nucleotide sequences. The
sensitivity of the cell-free supernatant of LAB strains iso-
lated from Azerbaijani cheeses to amylolytic enzymes and
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