Table 2.

Bacteriocins produced by probiotic bacteria

Bacteriocin	Producing strain	Inhibited strain(s)	Probiotic use	Reference
Gram-positive class I bacteriocins
ABP-118	Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118	Listeria monocytogenes	Preventing gastric infection (mouse model)	Corr et al. (2007)
Bovamine™	Lactobacillus acidophilus	E. coli O157:H7	Preventing colon infections in cattle	Brashears et al. (2003a); Brashears et al. (2003b)
	Propionibacterium freudenreichii
Lacticin B	L. acidophilus	V. anguillarum	Containing Japanese flounder infections	Taoka et al. (2006)
Bacillocin 22	B. subtilis
Butyricin 7423	Clostridium butyricum
Salivaricin	S. salivarius K12	S. pyogenes	Treating human throat infection	Dierksen et al. (2000); Walls et al. (2003)
Salivaricin A & B		S. sobrinus, S. mutans	Preventing dental caries in human	Burton et al. (2006b); Dierksen et al. (2007)
Salivaricin B		Micrococcus luteus; S. anginosis; Eubacterium saburreum	Treating human halitosis (oral malodor)	Burton et al. (2006a)
Salivaricin	S. salivarius CRL1328	Enterococcus spp., Neisseria gonorrhoeae	Treating human vaginal infections	Juarez Tomas et al. (2002); Ocana et al. (1999)
UNa	L. casei L26	E. coli O111, Listeria monocytogenes	Containing gastric infection (mouse model)	Su et al. (2007b)
Carnocin	Carnobacterium maltaromaticum	Aeromonas salmonicida, Y. ruckeri	Containing Rainbow trout infections	Kim and Austin (2006)
	B26 and B33
UN	L. johnsonii La1	H. pylori	Preventing human gastric infections	Cruchet et al. (2003); Gotteland and Cruchet (2003)
UN	L. acidophilus LB	H. pylori, H. felis	Containing human gastric infections	Coconnier et al. (1998); Michetti et al. (1999)
Gram-positive class II bacteriocins
Pediocin	Pediococcus acidilactici	Enterococcus, L. monocytogenes, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Shigella	Containing human gastric infections	Speelmans et al. (2006)
Enterocin	Enterococcus faecium EK13	Salmonella dusseldorf SA13	Reducing Japanese quails (poultry) infections	Laukova et al. (2003)
		E. coli, Clostridia sp.	Preventing rabbit gastric infection	Laukova et al. (2006)
	Enterococcus faecium J96	Salmonella pullorum	Containing young broiler chickens GI infections	Audisio et al. (2000)
Gram-negative bacteriocins
UN	A. media A199	V. tubiashii, Saprolegnia parasitica	Containing Pacific oyster larvae and eel infections	Gibson et al. (1998); Lategan et al. (2004)
UN	A. hydrophila V. fluvialis	A. salmonicida	Containing Rainbow trout infections	Irianto et al. (2003)
UN	Roseobacter sp. BS107	Vibrio spp.	Containing Scallop larvae infections	Ruiz-Ponte et al. (1999)
Colicins
Colicin E2, E8 and E7	E. coli	E. coli O157:H7	Inhibiting calves GI contamination	Murinda et al. (1996)
Colicin E7	E. coli	E. coli O157:H7	Reducing calves and adult cattle GI contamination	Schamberger et al. (2004)
Colicin E1 and Ib	E. coli H22	E. coli and Enterobacter spp.	Inhibiting GI enteric infection (mouse model)	Cursino et al. (2006)
Microcins
Microcin 24	E. coli	S. typhimurium	Inhibiting adult chickens GI infection	Portrait et al. (1999); Wooley et al. (1999)
Microcin B17	E. coli Nissle 1917	E. coli	Reducing calves (cattle) colon infection	von Buenau et al. (2005)
		S. typhimurium, Shigella flexneri, E. coli	Treating acute infant and toddlers diarrhea	Henker et al. (2007)
Microcin C7	E. coli H22	Shigella flexneri	Inhibiting GI enteric infection (mouse model)	Cursino et al. (2006)

^aUnnamed bacteriocin