Lactobacillus (Lb.) plantarum ST71KS was isolated from homemade goat feta cheese and identified using biochemical and molecular biology techniques. As shown by Tricine-SDS-PAGE, this lactic acid bacterium produces a ...

Lactic acid bacteria are constituents of most of the indigenous microbiota or mucosarelated ecosystems, both in humans or animals. During the last years, many bacteriocins produced by bacteria classified into this group ...

A wide variety of contagious and environmental bacteria can cause bovine mastitis worldwide. Antibiotic therapy is currently used for the treatment of the disease, although its intensive use leads to the emergence of ...

American Foulbrood (AFB), caused by the spore-forming Gram-positive bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, is the most severe bacterial disease affecting honeybees worldwide. Two bacterial isolates showing specific inhibitory ...

The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils is the hallmark feature of a group of late-onset degenerative diseases including Alzheimer, Parkinson, and prion diseases. We report here that microcin E492, a peptide ...

The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of vitamins, glycerol and salts on the growth and bacteriocin production by Lactobacillus salivarius CRL 1328, a human vagina isolate, by using a chemically defined medium, ...