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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,767 Views
27 Pages

Comprehensive Approaches for the Search and Characterization of Staphylococcins

  • Rosa Fernández-Fernández,
  • Carmen Lozano,
  • Rine Christopher Reuben,
  • Laura Ruiz-Ripa and ,
  • Myriam Zarazaga and
  • Carmen Torres
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Novel and sustainable approaches are required to curb the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Within the last decades, antimicrobial peptides, especially bacteriocins, have received increased attention and are being explored as suita...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beneficial Microorganisms and Antimicrobials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
156 Citations
28,864 Views
23 Pages

Lysostaphin: A Staphylococcal Bacteriolysin with Potential Clinical Applications

  • Maria do Carmo de Freire Bastos,
  • Bruna Gonçalves Coutinho and
  • Marcus Lívio Varella Coelho

19 April 2010

Lysostaphin is an antimicrobial agent belonging to a major class of antimicrobial peptides and proteins known as the bacteriocins. Bacteriocins are bacterial antimicrobial peptides which generally exhibit bactericidal activity against other bacteria....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antibiotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,998 Views
16 Pages

Bacteriocin-Producing Staphylococci and Mammaliicocci Strains for Agro-Food and Public Health Applications with Relevance of Micrococcin P1

  • Rosa Fernández-Fernández,
  • Carmen Lozano,
  • Allelen Campaña-Burguet,
  • Carmen González-Azcona and ,
  • Tamara Álvarez-Gómez,
  • Rocío Fernández-Pérez,
  • Raquel Peña,
  • Myriam Zarazaga,
  • Jaime Carrasco and
  • Carmen Torres
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Antimicrobial-producing strains and their bacteriocins hold great promise for the control of bacterial diseases, being an attractive alternative to antibiotics. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the inhibitory activity of 15 bacteriocin-pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Novel Antimicrobial Agents)