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Application of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Bacteriocins for Food Biopreservation

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Microbes and/or their natural products have played key roles in the preservation of foods during mankind history (Ross et al. 2002). The rational exploitation of microbial antagonism based on scientific knowledge has been possible after the discovery of the biochemical nature of the antimicrobial substances produced by microorganisms. Bacteriocins produced by the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have several features that still make them attractive for food preservation: (1) LAB have a long history of safe use in foods; (2) LAB and their cell products—including bacteriocins—are generally recognised as safe; (3) LAB bacteriocins are not active and non-toxic on eukaryotic cells, and (4) due to their proteinaceous nature, bacteriocins are expected to become inactivated by digestive proteases and not exert significant effects on gut microbiota at the concentrations ingested with the food. In addition, LAB bacteriocins may be suitable as preservatives, given (1) their sometimes broad antimicrobial spectrum, including food poisoning and spoilage bacteria, (2) their synergistic activity with other antimicrobials, (3) a bactericidal mode of action exerted at membrane level, which avoids cross resistance with antibiotics of clinical use, (4) stability under the heat and pH conditions achieved under processing of many foods, and (5) their genetic determinants are usually plasmid-encoded, which facilitates genetic manipulation and development of producer strains with improved technological properties. Bacteriocin-encoding plasmids may be transferred to other strains by natural processes, but at the same time there is a risk for loss of the plasmid together with the bacteriocin production capacity.

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    Antonio Gálvez, Rosario Lucas López, Rubén Pérez Pulido & María José Grande Burgos

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Gálvez, A., López, R.L., Pulido, R.P., Burgos, M.J.G. (2014). Application of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Bacteriocins for Food Biopreservation. In: Food Biopreservation. SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2029-7_3

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