Please explain the roles of microbial toxins on the producer

Solution

The toxin produced by micro-organisms including bacteria, fungi are microbial toxin. They directly damage host tissues and disable immune system thereby promoting infection. Producers are those organism which convert energy from the environment to carbon bonds. For example plants which take energy from sunlight and utilize it in converting carbon dioxide into glucose or other sugars. Many bacterial exotoxins have the capacity to damage the extracellular matrix or the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells. The damage results in direct lysis of cells which also impeds bacterial spread through cells. The cellular damage is either done by enzymatic hydrolysis or pore formation by the microbial toxins. Eg. Streptococcus pyogenes
streptokinase, which can hydrolyze plasminogen to plasmin and dissolve clots.Microbial toxins capable of interrupting or hyperstimulating many essential functions and pathways of eukaryotic cells have evolved along with the carrier bacterium.