Food microbiology: Bacteriocins: Developing innate immunity for food

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 777-788

  Cotter, Paul D ^a   Hill, Colin ^a   Ross, R Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; LANTIBIOTIC; NISIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; FERMENTED PRODUCT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTROL; LACTOBACILLUS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD PRESERVATION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NISIN;

EID: 27244436751     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1273     Document Type: Review

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