Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Reduced Pathogenic Bacterial Activity

• The continuing story of class IIa bacteriocins.

  • 2006-06
  • Review
  • Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR 70(2)
  • • Djamel Drider
    • Gunnar Fimland
    • Yann Héchard
    • Lynn M McMullen
    • Hervé Prévost

  • PubMed: 16760314
  • DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00016-05

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Pathogenic Bacterial Activity

  • Moderate evidence
  • Highly Cited

  class IIa bacteriocins... kill target cells by membrane permeabilization... They kill some pathogenic bacteria (e.g., Listeria) with high efficiency

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate