Antibacterial Activities of Bacteriocins: Application in Foods and Pharmaceuticals

Bacteriocins are a kind of ribosomal synthesized antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria, which can kill or inhibit bacterial strains closely-related or non-related to produced bacteria, but will not harm the bacteria themselves by specific immunity proteins. Bacteriocins become one of the weapo...

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Main Authors: Shih-Chun eYang, Chih-Hung eLin, Calvin T. Sung, Jia-You eFang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00241/full