Functions and emerging applications of bacteriocins

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2018, Pages 23-28

  Chikindas, Michael L ^a,b   Weeks, Richard ^a   Drider, Djamel ^c   Chistyakov, Vladimir A ^d   Dicks, Leon MT ^e  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b the State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRESERVATIVES; LACTIC ACID; PEPTIDES;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; APPLICATION-ORIENTED; CARRIER MOLECULES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

BACTERIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; NISIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL KILLING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FERMENTATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; FOOD; HEALTH; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

BACTERIOCINS; FOOD; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEALTH; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

EID: 85026767903     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.07.011     Document Type: Review

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