Review3 Biotech2018
Therapeutic applications of bacterial pigments: a review of current status and future opportunities.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bacterial Pigments as Potential Antitumor Agents Against Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Biotechnology and applied biochemistry · 2026Pooled it
- From Pigment Chemistry to Nanomaterials: Fungal Pigments as Reducing and Stabilizing Agents in Green Nanoparticle Synthesis.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Microbial pigments as potential anti-rift valley fever virus drugs.BMC chemistry · 2026Article
- Staphylococcus aureus's golden-yellow pigment staphyloxanthin: production enhancement, analytical characterization, and biological attributes.Microbial cell factories · 2026Review
- In vitro anticancer activity of prodeoxyviolacein produced by3 Biotech · 2025Article
- Natural color biofactories: advancing the spectrum of pigment production in phototrophic microbes.FEMS microbes · 2025Review
- Antimicrobial Effect of Common Bacterial Pigments on Clinically Significant Microorganisms.Scientifica · 2025Article
- Microbial prodigiosin shows broad-spectrum bioactivity confirmed by experimental and computational analyses.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Anti-Melanogenic Activity of Undecylprodigiosin, a Red Pigment Isolated from a MarineBiomolecules & therapeutics · 2024Article
- A comprehensive profiling of quorum quenching by bacterial pigments identifies quorum sensing inhibition and antibiofilm action of prodigiosin against Acinetobacter baumannii.Archives of microbiology · 2023Article
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa's greenish-blue pigment pyocyanin: its production and biological activities.Microbial cell factories · 2023Review
- Production of bioactive β-carotene by the endophytic bacterium Citricoccus parietis AUCs with multiple in vitro biological potentials.Microbial cell factories · 2023Article
- Antibacterial, antibiofilm, and anti-quorum sensing activities of pyocyanin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: in vitro and in vivo study.BMC microbiology · 2023Article
- Insight into Green Extraction for Roselle as a Source of Natural Red Pigments: A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A purified and lyophilized Pseudomonas aeruginosa derived pyocyanin induces promising apoptotic and necrotic activities against MCF-7 human breast adenocarcinoma.Microbial cell factories · 2022Article
- Bioactive Compounds from Endophytic BacteriaMetabolites · 2022Article
- Prodigiosin: a promising biomolecule with many potential biomedical applications.Bioengineered · 2022Review
- Bacterial pigments: A colorful palette reservoir for biotechnological applications.Biotechnology and applied biochemistry · 2022Review
- Insight into the Progress on Natural Dyes: Sources, Structural Features, Health Effects, Challenges, and Potential.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Antimicrobial Food Packaging Based on Prodigiosin-Incorporated Double-Layered Bacterial Cellulose and Chitosan Composites.Polymers · 2022Article
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8 authors.
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Abstract
Non-toxicity, biodegradability and non-carcinogenicity of the natural pigments, dyes and colorants make them an attractive source for human use. Bacterial pigments are colored metabolites secreted by bacteria under stress. The industrial uses of bacterial pigments have increased many folds because of several advantages over the synthetic pigments. Among natural resources, bacterial pigments are mostly preferred because of simple culturing and pigment extraction techniques, scaling up and being time economical. Generally, the bacterial pigments are safe for human use and therefore have a wide range of applications in pharmaceutical, textile, cosmetics and food industries. Therapeutic nature of the bacterial pigments is revealed because of their antimicrobial, anticancer, cytotoxic and remarkable antioxidant properties. Owing to the importance of bacterial pigments it was considered important to produce a comprehensive review of literature on the therapeutic and industrial potential of bacterial pigments. Extensive literature has been reviewed on the biomedical application of bacterial pigments while further opportunities and future challenges have been discussed.
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