Advanced Strategies in Probiotic Approaches and Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 9033
Special Issue Editor
Interests: screening and characterization of probiotic strains including strains producing bacteriocins involved in antimicrobial activity; microbial genome analysis and microbiome studies; sequencing and characterization of mobile genetic elements responsible for antibiotic resistance and production of bacteriocin genes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The search for probiotic strains possessing innovative functional characteristics and their formulations has been evolving rapidly and could lead to innovative therapeutic strategies; this is also due to the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes and the spread of multidrug resistant pathogens. Probiotic strains are usually associated with their health-promoting effects in the host, both on direct interactions between cells and indirectly through their released metabolites modulating and improving the human microbiota. Overall, the beneficial probiotic activities include competitive exclusion, co-aggregation and production of antimicrobial compounds, such as lactic acid, bacteriocin-like substances and biosurfactants, all properties that interfere with pathogen growth. As well as probiotic strategies, more recently, the use of non-live microorganisms such as heat-killed probiotics, microbial extracts and cell-free supernatants, has been growing in interest for their applications in alternative strategies and eventual use in practice.
This Special Issue would cover all molecular aspects of research related topics for therapeutic probiotic strains, health-promoting effects of probiotics and new advances in probiotic strategies.
Dr. Maria Santagati
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- probiotics
- bacteriocins
- cell free supernatants (CFSs)
- microbiome
- antimicrobial activity
- metabolites