Abstract:
:The emergence of an increasing number of antibiotic resistant human clinical bacteria has been a great cause of concern for the last decades. As an example, Staphylococcus aureus isolates in the hospital environment are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics including vancomycin which is considered as a last line of defence in treatment of Staphylococcus aureus-resistant methicillin. On the other hand, food safety is threatened by development of pathogenic bacteria including Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella enteritidis, Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus. The use of antimicrobial peptides such as glycopeptides, semi-synthetic peptides, bacteriocins including lantibiotics offers a hope to face these clinical and food microbiology concerns. Clinical approval of new chemotherapeutic agents requires a long period of time. Research on bacteriocins has demonstrated potential use to fight against undesired foodborne pathogens but the use industrial use of bacteriocins is limited. To date only lantibiotic nisin and in class IIa bacteriocin Pediocin PA-1 are legally used as food preservative in many countries. The present minireview is focused on divercin V41 (DvnV41), a class IIa bacteriocin naturally produced by Carnobacterium divergens V41. The last decade has been the witness of intensive investigations carried out on this cationic peptide tempting to answer multiple questions covering basic and applied aspects. DvnV41 has shown a wide spectrum of activity either alone or in combination with nisin and/or polymixins (synergistic effect). This outcome indicates that Cb. divergens V41 could potentially be used for safe and efficient prevention of L. monocytogenes growth in cold smoked salmon.
journal_name
Lett Appl Microbioljournal_title
Letters in applied microbiologyauthors
Rihakova J,Belguesmia Y,Petit VW,Pilet MF,Prévost H,Dousset X,Drider Ddoi
10.1111/j.1472-765X.2008.02490.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-01-01 00:00:00pages
1-7issue
1eissn
0266-8254issn
1472-765Xpii
LAM2490journal_volume
48pub_type
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