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ReviewPharmaceutics2021

Bacteriocins in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance: Rising to the Challenge.

Gratiela Gradisteanu Pircalabioru, Laura Ioana Popa, Luminita Marutescu, Irina Gheorghe, Marcela Popa, Ilda Czobor Barbu, Rodica Cristescu, Mariana-Carmen Chifiriuc

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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 61 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
16.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gratiela Gradisteanu PircalabioruResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.
Laura Ioana PopaResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6446-737X
Luminita MarutescuResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.
Irina GheorgheResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.
Marcela PopaResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-9939-1317
Ilda Czobor BarbuResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.
Rodica CristescuLasers Department, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, P.O. Box MG-36, RO-077125 Magurele, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-3092-6168
Mariana-Carmen ChifiriucResearch Institute of the University of Bucharest, Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Section-ICUB, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6098-1857
University of Bucharest · RONational Institute for Laser Plasma and Radiation Physics · RO

Funding

Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0114-10/2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decades of antibiotic misuse in clinical settings, animal feed, and within the food industry have led to a concerning rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Every year, antimicrobial-resistant infections cause 700,000 deaths, with 10 million casualties expected by 2050, if this trend continues. Hence, innovative solutions are imperative to curb antibiotic resistance. Bacteria produce a potent arsenal of drugs with remarkable diversity that are all distinct from those of current antibiotics. Bacteriocins are potent small antimicrobial peptides synthetized by certain bacteria that may be appointed as alternatives to traditional antibiotics. These molecules are strategically employed by commensals, mostly Firmicutes, to colonize and persist in the human gut. Bacteriocins form channels in the target cell membrane, leading to leakage of low-molecular-weight, causing the disruption of the proton motive force. The objective of this review was to list and discuss the potential of bacteriocins as antimicrobial therapeutics for infections produced mainly by resistant pathogens.

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antibiotic resistancebacteriocinsnisin

Identifiers

PMID33540560
PMCPMC7912925
OpenAlexW3126891430

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