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ReviewPharmaceutics2021

Potential Novel Food-Related and Biomedical Applications of Nanomaterials Combined with Bacteriocins.

Atanu Naskar, Kwang-Sun Kim

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Atanu NaskarDepartment of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.
Kwang-Sun KimDepartment of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3703-5461

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides or proteinaceous materials produced by bacteria against pathogens. These molecules have high efficiency and specificity and are equipped with many properties useful in food-related applications, such as food preservatives and additives, as well as biomedical applications, such as serving as alternatives to current antibacterial, antiviral, anticancer, and antibiofilm agents. Despite their advantages as alternative therapeutics over existing strategies, several limitations of bacteriocins, such as the high cost of isolation and purification, narrow spectrum of activity, low stability and solubility, and easy enzymatic degradation, need to be improved. Nanomaterials are promising agents in many biological applications. They are widely used in the conjugation or decoration of bacteriocins to augment the activity of bacteriocins or reduce problems related to their use in biomedical applications. Therefore, bacteriocins combined with nanomaterials have emerged as promising molecules that can be used in various biomedical applications. This review highlights the features of bacteriocins and their limitations in biomedical applications and provides a detailed overview of the uses of different nanomaterials in improving the limitations. Our review focuses on the potential applications of nanomaterials combined with bacteriocins as new designer molecules for use in future therapeutic strategies.

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bacteriocinbacteriocin nanoconjugatebiomedical applicationsnanomaterialnanomedicine

Identifiers

PMID33440722
PMCPMC7826801

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