Turkish Journal of Biology
DOI
10.3906/biy-1010-142
Abstract
A cheese isolate Pediococcus pentosaceus lactic acid bacterium, which has been deposited at the Microbial Type Culture Collection Centre Chandigarh with the accession number MTCC 5151, was tested for anti-Shigella dysenteriae activity and the bacteriocin was characterized. The protein band was observed with tricine sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) as a single band with a molecular mass of 23 kDa. This is a new and novel bacteriocin that inhibits S. dysenteriae and has not yet been reported from P. pentosaceus. It was purified on a Sephacryl column and the active fraction specific for anti-Shigella dysenteriae with 23 kDa was found and confirmed via liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The effect of various physical parameters on bacteriocin activity was also studied, with the optimum conditions being determined at a pH level of 5.5 with an 18-h-grown culture.
Keywords
Bacteriocin, Pediococcus pentosaceus, purification, anti-Shigella dysenteriae
First Page
177
Last Page
185
Recommended Citation
AGRAWAL, RENU and DHARMESH, SHYLAJA
(2012)
"An anti-Shigella dysenteriae bacteriocin from Pediococcus pentosaceus MTCC 5151 cheese isolate,"
Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 36:
No.
2, Article 6.
https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-1010-142
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol36/iss2/6