Metabiotics: novel idea or natural development of probiotic conception

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Table 1 Some groups of LMW compounds of symbiotic (probiotic) microbe origin that may become the basis for manufacture of potential metabiotics

Bacteriocins

Short-chain fatty acids, other organic acids

Proteins, peptides, amino acids

Nucleic acids, nucleotides

Polysaccharides, peptidoglycans, other cell surface molecules

Plasmalogens, vitamins, antioxidants, co-factors

Various messenger (signal) molecules