The role of probiotics and prebiotics in the prevention and treatment of obesity

T Cerdó, JA García-Santos, M G. Bermúdez, C Campoy - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is a global pandemic complex to treat due to its multifactorial pathogenesis—an
unhealthy lifestyle, neuronal and hormonal mechanisms, and genetic and epigenetic factors …

Anticancer activity of lactic acid bacteria

K Garbacz - seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB), a group of Gram-positive microorganisms naturally occurring in
fermented food products and used as probiotics, have been gaining the interest of …

Bacteriocins as potential anticancer agents

S Kaur, S Kaur - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide, despite advances in its
treatment and detection. The conventional chemotherapeutic agents used for the treatment …

A review: the fate of bacteriocins in the human gastro-intestinal tract: do they cross the gut–blood barrier?

LMT Dicks, L Dreyer, C Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The intestinal barrier, consisting of the vascular endothelium, epithelial cell lining, and
mucus layer, covers a surface of about 400 m2. The integrity of the gut wall is sustained by …

Bacteriocins of lactic acid bacteria as biotechnological tools in food and pharmaceuticals: Current applications and future prospects

GM Daba, WA Elkhateeb - Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are prestigious bacteria which have reserved their position as
biotechnological tool due to the probiotic properties characterizing many species of them, as …

Bacteriocins: perspective for the development of novel anticancer drugs

P Baindara, S Korpole, V Grover - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from prokaryotic source also known as bacteriocins are
ribosomally synthesized by bacteria belonging to different eubacterial taxonomic branches …

Plantaricin bacteriocins: As safe alternative antimicrobial peptides in food preservation—A review

R Abdulhussain Kareem, SH Razavi - Journal of Food Safety, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many peptides are excreted by gram‐positive (+) and gram‐negative (−) bacteria,
possessing antimicrobial properties, called bacteriocins. Common bacterial species produce …

Antimicrobial lactoferrin peptides: the hidden players in the protective function of a multifunctional protein

M Sinha, S Kaushik, P Kaur, S Sharma… - … journal of peptides, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Lactoferrin is a multifunctional, iron‐binding glycoprotein which displays a wide array of
modes of action to execute its primary antimicrobial function. It contains various antimicrobial …

Bacteria and bacterial anticancer agents as a promising alternative for cancer therapeutics

P Baindara, SM Mandal - Biochimie, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is the leading cause of deaths worldwide, though significant advances have
occurred in its diagnosis and treatment. The development of resistance against …

Anticancer properties of a defensin like class IId bacteriocin Laterosporulin10

P Baindara, A Gautam, GPS Raghava, S Korpole - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Laterosporulin10 (LS10) is a defensin like peptide from Brevibacillus sp. strain
SKDU10 that inhibited microbial pathogens. However, in this study, anticancer activity of …