Huge demand of safe and natural preservatives has opened new area for intensive research
on bacteriocins to unravel the novel range of antimicrobial compounds that could efficiently …

Bacteria often live within matrix-embedded communities, termed biofilms, which are now
understood to be a major mode of microbial life. The study of biofilms has revealed their vast …

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) was the first strain belonging to the genus Lactobacillus
to be patented in 1989 thanks to its ability to survive and to proliferate at gastric acid pH and …

Emerging evidence shows the trend of using safe and natural preservatives like bacteriocins
in food processing. The increasing demand by the food industry to extend keeping quality …

The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem that associates a resident microbiota and
cells of various phenotypes lining the epithelial wall expressing complex metabolic activities …

The staphylococcal agr locus encodes a quorum sensing (QS) system that controls the
expression of virulence and other accessory genes by a classical two-component signaling …

SUMMARY A vast and diverse array of microbial species displaying great phylogenic,
genomic, and metabolic diversity have colonized the gastrointestinal tract. Resident …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fight competing Gram-positive microorganisms by secreting anti-
microbial peptides called bacteriocins. Peptide bacteriocins are usually divided into …

Fermentation, the microbial degradation of organic compounds without net oxidation, is an
important process in the global carbon cycle and is also exploited worldwide for the …

While intercellular communication systems in Gram-negative bacteria are often based on
homoserine lactones as signalling molecules, it has been shown that autoinducing peptides …