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Current status and emerging role of glutathione in food grade lactic acid bacteria

Overview of attention for article published in Microbial Cell Factories, August 2012
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Title
Current status and emerging role of glutathione in food grade lactic acid bacteria
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Microbial Cell Factories, August 2012
DOI 10.1186/1475-2859-11-114
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Sarang Dilip Pophaly, Rameshwar Singh, Saurabh Dilip Pophaly, Jai K Kaushik, Sudhir Kumar Tomar

Abstract

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have taken centre stage in perspectives of modern fermented food industry and probiotic based therapeutics. These bacteria encounter various stress conditions during industrial processing or in the gastrointestinal environment. Such conditions are overcome by complex molecular assemblies capable of synthesizing and/or metabolizing molecules that play a specific role in stress adaptation. Thiols are important class of molecules which contribute towards stress management in cell. Glutathione, a low molecular weight thiol antioxidant distributed widely in eukaryotes and Gram negative organisms, is present sporadically in Gram positive bacteria. However, new insights on its occurrence and role in the latter group are coming to light. Some LAB and closely related Gram positive organisms are proposed to possess glutathione synthesis and/or utilization machinery. Also, supplementation of glutathione in food grade LAB is gaining attention for its role in stress protection and as a nutrient and sulfur source. Owing to the immense benefits of glutathione, its release by probiotic bacteria could also find important applications in health improvement. This review presents our current understanding about the status of glutathione and its role as an exogenously added molecule in food grade LAB and closely related organisms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 118 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 25%
Researcher 23 19%
Student > Master 16 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Student > Postgraduate 7 6%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 20 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 46 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 7%
Chemistry 7 6%
Engineering 6 5%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 25 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2022.
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#13,949,588
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#847
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#96,011
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#14
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