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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2025

Microbial prodigiosin shows broad-spectrum bioactivity confirmed by experimental and computational analyses.

Muhammad Rafiq, Noor Ul Huda, Noor Hassan, Hazrat Ali, Abdul Tawab, Rizwan Bashir, Naveed Iqbal, Zara Rafaque, Faisal Ahmad, Yanyan Wang and 4 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Muhammad RafiqGuizhou Key Laboratory of Microbiome and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education of Guizhou, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Joint Laboratory of Shanghai Dongli One Health Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guizhou Medical University One Health Research Institute, Guiyang, China.
Noor Ul HudaNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Noor HassanNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Hazrat AliNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Abdul TawabNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Rizwan BashirNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Naveed IqbalDepartment of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Informatics, Balochistan University of IT, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan.
Zara RafaqueDepartment of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Faisal AhmadNational Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Yanyan WangGuizhou Key Laboratory of Microbiome and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education of Guizhou, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Joint Laboratory of Shanghai Dongli One Health Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guizhou Medical University One Health Research Institute, Guiyang, China.
Waqar RaufNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Anam SaqibNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Iqra JawadNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Yingqian KangGuizhou Key Laboratory of Microbiome and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education of Guizhou, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Joint Laboratory of Shanghai Dongli One Health Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guizhou Medical University One Health Research Institute, Guiyang, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing demand for natural bioactive compounds highlights the need for antimicrobial and antioxidative metabolites derived from microbial sources. Among them, prodigiosin, a red pigment from

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antibacterialantifungalantioxidantprodigiosinsecondary metaboliteSerratia marcescens

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PMID41070125
PMCPMC12504492

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