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Bio Composites Plus supplies a Silver Ion Inorganic additive which is widely accepted as having broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. In order to understand why this is so, it is necessary to examine the action of silver ions against microbes.
The following diagram and comments will help to explain just how silver is so effective in the fight against microbes.
(1) Silver ions may bind nonspecifically to cell surfaces, causing some disruption to the cellular membrane function and allowing the silver ions to penetrate the microbe structure.
(2) Silver ions are highly reactive and readily bind to electron donor groups, with prime targets being the thiol groups (-SH) which are commonly found in enzymes within the microbe.
This causes the enzymes to be denatured thus effectively incapacitating the energy source of the cell. As a result the cell cannot maintain osmotic pressure, vital substances leak out of the cell and the microbe will quickly die.
(3) Silver ions react with the base pairs of DNA thus preventing DNA replication.
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