Postbiotics produced by lactic acid bacteria: The next frontier in food safety

M Moradi, SA Kousheh, H Almasi… - … reviews in food …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There are many critical challenges in the use of primary and secondary cultures and their
biological compounds in food commodities. An alternative is the application of postbiotics …

Microbial biofilms: biosurfactants as antibiofilm agents

IM Banat, MAD De Rienzo, GA Quinn - Applied microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
Current microbial inhibition strategies based on planktonic bacterial physiology have been
known to have limited efficacy on the growth of biofilm communities. This problem can be …

Probiotic Lactobacillus sp. inhibit growth, biofilm formation and gene expression of caries‐inducing Streptococcus mutans

R Wasfi, OA Abd El‐Rahman, MM Zafer… - Journal of cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Streptococcus mutans contributes significantly to dental caries, which arises from
homoeostasic imbalance between host and microbiota. We hypothesized that Lactobacillus …

Recent advances in biomedical, therapeutic and pharmaceutical applications of microbial surfactants

C Ceresa, L Fracchia, E Fedeli, C Porta, IM Banat - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens typically existing in biofilm formation and
the recent COVID-19 pandemic, although unrelated phenomena, have demonstrated the …

Advanced strategies for combating bacterial biofilms

JY Sharahi, T Azimi, A Shariati, H Safari… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that are formed on and attached to living or
nonliving surfaces and are surrounded by an extracellular polymeric material. Biofilm …

How probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics prevent dental caries: An oral microbiota perspective

SC Luo, SM Wei, XT Luo, QQ Yang, KH Wong… - npj Biofilms and …, 2024 - nature.com
Dental caries, a highly prevalent oral disease, impacts a significant portion of the global
population. Conventional approaches that indiscriminately eradicate microbes disrupt the …

Effect of Different Carbon Sources on Biosurfactants' Production by Three Strains of Lactobacillus spp.

TH Mouafo, A Mbawala… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The potential of three indigenous bacterial strains (Lactobacillus delbrueckii N2,
Lactobacillus cellobiosus TM1, and Lactobacillus plantarum G88) for the production of …

[PDF][PDF] Potential therapeutic applications of microbial surface-active compounds

L Fracchia, JJ Banat, M Cavallo, C Ceresa… - AIMS …, 2015 - iris.uniupo.it
Numerous investigations of microbial surface-active compounds or biosurfactants over the
past two decades have led to the discovery of many interesting physicochemical and …

Effects of biosurfactants on the viability and proliferation of human breast cancer cells

C Duarte, EJ Gudiña, CF Lima, LR Rodrigues - AMB express, 2014 - Springer
Biosurfactants are molecules with surface activity produced by microorganisms that can be
used in many biomedical applications. The anti-tumour potential of these molecules is being …

Inhibition of pathogenic bacterial biofilms on PDMS based implants by L. acidophilus derived biosurfactant

SK Satpute, NS Mone, P Das, IM Banat… - BMC microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Background Lactobacillus spp. predominantly shows its presence as a normal mucosal flora
of the mouth and intestine. Therefore, the objective of our research is to investigate the in …