IT CAME FROM THE SWAMP STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM ALLIGATOR BLOOD IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A SOURCE OF NEW ANTIBIOTICS AND ANTIFUNGAL CHEMICALS

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Looking for new anti bacterial and anti fungal chemicals, researchers at Louisiana State University and at McNeese State University are analyzing alligator blood to identify peptides and proteins with antimicrobial activity. Apparently alligators have a strong immune system. Alligators may be dangerous, they may be dirty but they may also hold a key to fight dangerous germs like MRSA bacteria. If you think about it, alligators are able to live in dirty bacteria infested water. How do they do it? Apparently alligators have a strong immune system. It is the immune system that helps your body fight off disease.





Alligator blood may turn out to be a new source of antimicrobial compounds. It seems that in laboratory studies alligator white blood cell extracts killed MRSA. methicillin resistant Staph aureus as well as Candida Albicans, a fungus. "In previous studies, biochemist Mark E. Merchant of McNeese State found that extracts from alligator blood kill a variety of bacteria and yeast, including "some incredibly nasty strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria" such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the notorious culprit in many hospital-acquired infections. These blood samples contain peptides (parts of proteins) that are part of the alligator’s innate immune system".

"Merchant has teamed up with mass spectrometrist Kermit K. Murray and grad student Lancia N. F. Darville at Louisiana State to perform proteomic analyses of alligator serum and white blood cells to identify those peptides".

Alligator Blood May Be Source of New Anti Microbial Chemicals