| Autor: |
Vargas-Sinisterra AF; Maestría en Ciencias Biomédicas, Grupo de Investigación BIOSALUD, Facultad de Ciencias para la salud, Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 # 26-10, Manizales, Colombia.; Grupo de Investigación iCUBO, Facultad de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ingeniería Bioquímica, Universidad Icesi, Calle 18 # 122-135, Cali, Colombia., Ramírez-Castrillón M; Research Group in Mycology (GIM/CICBA), Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Calle 5 # 62-00, Cali, Colombia. mauricio.ramirez00@usc.edu.co. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Archives of microbiology [Arch Microbiol] 2021 Apr; Vol. 203 (3), pp. 873-888. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 05. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s00203-020-02111-7 |
| Abstrakt: |
Carotenoids are a large group of organic, pigmented, isoprenoid-type compounds that play biological activities in plants and microorganisms (yeasts, bacteria, and microalgae). Literature reported it as vitamin A precursors and antioxidant activity. Carotenoids also can act as antimicrobial agents and few reports showed quantitative measurements of Minimal Inhibitory Concentrations against different pathogens. In this sense, some carotenoids were added to medical-surgical materials. The demand for scale-up of different naturally obtained carotenoids has increased due to the concern about the detrimental health effects caused by synthetic molecules and antimicrobial resistance. In this review, we reported the variability in pigment production and culture conditions, extraction methods used in laboratory, and we discussed the antimicrobial activity carried out by these molecules and the promising acting as new molecules to be scaled-up to industry. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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