Application of natural antimicrobials in food preservation: Recent views

GES Batiha, DE Hussein, AM Algammal, TT George… - Food Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Consumer concern on the use of naturally-occurring antimicrobials from plants,
microorganisms and animal sources continues to grow daily, mostly triggered by the …

An overview of antimicrobial activity of lysozyme and its functionality in cheese

N Khorshidian, E Khanniri, MR Koushki… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to the concern of consumers about the presence of synthetic preservatives, researchers
and food manufacturers have recently conducted extensive research on the limited use of …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-interface engineering of MXene nanosheets with immobilized lysozyme for light-enhanced enzymatic inactivation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

D Zhang, L Huang, DW Sun, H Pu, Q Wei - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Being a unique biocatalyst to hydrolyse structural polysaccharides on the cell wall of
bacteria, lysozyme can slow down bacterial resistance caused by antibiotic overdose …

Application of antimicrobial peptides of the innate immune system in combination with conventional antibiotics—a novel way to combat antibiotic resistance?

MS Zharkova, DS Orlov, OY Golubeva… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rapidly growing resistance of pathogenic bacteria to conventional antibiotics leads to
inefficiency of traditional approaches of countering infections and determines the urgent …

Lysozyme and its application as antibacterial agent in food industry

N Nawaz, S Wen, F Wang, S Nawaz, J Raza, M Iftikhar… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lysozymes are hydrolytic enzymes characterized by their ability to cleave the β-(1, 4)-
glycosidic bonds in peptidoglycan, a major structural component of the bacterial cell wall …

Polyphenol-binding amyloid fibrils self-assemble into reversible hydrogels with antibacterial activity

B Hu, Y Shen, J Adamcik, P Fischer, M Schneider… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Adaptable hydrogel networks with reversible connectivity have emerged as a promising
platform for biomedical applications. Synthetic copolymers and low-molecular-weight …

Lysozymes in the animal kingdom

L Callewaert, CW Michiels - Journal of biosciences, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Lysozymes (EC 3.2. 1.17) are hydrolytic enzymes, characterized by their ability to
cleave the β-(1, 4)-glycosidic bond between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine …

Engineered endolysin-based “Artilysins” to combat multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens

Y Briers, M Walmagh, V Van Puyenbroeck… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global threat to public health posed by emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria in the past
few years necessitates the development of novel approaches to combat bacterial infections …

Lysozymes in fish

Q Song, Y Xiao, Z Xiao, T Liu, J Li, P Li… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the deterioration of the aquaculture ecological environment has led to a high
incidence of fish diseases. Lysozymes, important antimicrobial enzymes, play an important …

Food safety through natural antimicrobials

EJ Quinto, I Caro, LH Villalobos-Delgado, J Mateo… - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Microbial pathogens are the cause of many foodborne diseases after the ingestion of
contaminated food. Several preservation methods have been developed to assure microbial …