The meat isolate S. sciuri I20-1 belonged to the Research Group
of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium) and was explored with
respect to its bacteriocin-like activity. From the same collection, the
non-bacteriocinogenic S. sciuri strain G160 was used as a negative
control. Lactobacillus sakei CTC 494 was used a LAB starter culture
for the fermentative acidification of the meat models (Rimaux et al.,
2011). The authenticity of both S. sciuri strains was confirmed on
species level through rpoB gene sequencing (Braem et al., 2011).
The antibacterial activities of both S. sciuri strains were tested towards
a set of 50 indicator strains belonging to different culture