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Purification, Characterization, and Mode of Action of Plantaricin GZ1-27, a Novel Bacteriocin against Bacillus cereus Hechao Du, Jie Yang, Zhaoxin Lu, Xiaomei Bie, Haizhen Zhao, Chong Zhang, and Fengxia Lu J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01124 • Publication Date (Web): 25 Apr 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on April 25, 2018
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Purification, Characterization, and Mode of Action of
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Plantaricin GZ1-27, a Novel Bacteriocin against Bacillus cereus
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Hechao Du, Jie Yang, Xiaohong Lu, Zhaoxin Lu, XiaomeiBie, Haizhen Zhao, Chong Zhang,
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Fengxia Lu*
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College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang,
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Nanjing 210095, China
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* Correspondence:
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Corresponding author
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Tel: +86-2584395963;
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ABSTRACT: Bacillus cereus is an opportunistic pathogen that causes foodborne diseases.
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We isolated a novel bacteriocin, designated plantaricin GZ1-27, and elucidated its mode of
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action against B. cereus. Plantaricin GZ1-27 was purified using ammonium sulfate
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precipitation, gel-filtration chromatography, and RP-HPLC. MALDI-TOF/MS revealed that
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its molecular mass was 975 Da, and Q-TOF-MS/MS analysis predicted the amino acid
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sequence as VSGPAGPPGTH. Plantaricin GZ1-27 showed thermostability and pH stability.
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The antibacterial mechanism was investigated using flow cytometry, confocal laser-scanning
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microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and RT-PCR, which revealed
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that GZ1-27 increased cell membrane permeability, triggered K+ leakage and pore formation,
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damaged cell membrane integrity, altered cell morphology and intracellular organization, and
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reduced the expression of genes related to cytotoxin production, peptidoglycan synthesis, and
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cell division. These results suggest that plantaricin GZ1-27 effectively inhibits B. cereus at
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both the cellular and molecular levels, and is a potential natural food preservative targeting B.
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cereus.
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KEYWORDS: Bacillus cereus, plantaricin, antibacterial mechanism, natural food
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preservative
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INTRODUCTION
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Bacillus cereus is a widely recognized opportunistic pathogen responsible for a vast
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range of food-spoilage and food-poisoning cases.1 In China, B. cereus ranks second as the
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causal pathogen of foodborne disease, accounting for 14.6% of cases. Depending on the toxin
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produced by the pathogen, ingestion of B. cereus-contaminated food can lead to two major
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types of gastrointestinal disease: emetic syndromes and diarrheal disease.2 Also, it’s related to
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many serious infections like endophthalmitis and septicemia, as well as food-related
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fatalities.3 Therefore, agents that could prevent B. cereus contamination are urgently required
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in the food industry. However, since the potential safety of chemical preservatives is a major
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concern among consumers, there is considerable demand for investigating natural and safe
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food preservatives as alternatives to chemical agents.
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Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized low-molecular-weight peptides or proteins.
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One of the most important benefits is their low oral toxicity to the host. This makes them
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potentially fit for use as bio-preservatives in the food industry.4 On the basis of the new
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revised classification system put forward by Cotter et al.,5 bacteriocins are divided into two
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major categories: Class I, lanthionine-containing lantibiotics (M < 5 kDa), and Class II,
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non-lanthionine-containing bacteriocins (M < 10 kDa). Class II bacteriocins are further
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subdivided into four subclasses: Class IIa (pediocin-like), Class IIb (two-peptide), Class IIc
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(cyclic), and Class IId (non-pediocin single linear). Although many bacteriocins only inhibit
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Gram-positive bacteria is noteworthy, some bacteriocins exhibiting broad-spectrum
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antimicrobial activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria have also been
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reported, such as sakacin C2,6 ent35-MccV,7 and lactocin MXJ 32A.8 3
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Accumulating evidence indicates that bacteriocins are effective in controlling various
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foodborne pathogens and inhibiting food spoilage, including Staphylococcus spp.,
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Streptococcus spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Brochothrix thermosphacta, and Lactobacillus
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curvatus.9 In addition, bacteriocins/cultures have been well documented to protect diverse
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types of foods against contamination such as fermented dairy products, bakery products and
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ingredients, alcoholic beverages, meat, fruit and vegetables, and seafood. For example,
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Staphylococcus aureus viable counts obviously decreased in the range of 1.8-2.7 log units
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with the presence of enterocin AS-48 in pumpkin confiture stored at 10 °C.10 Among the
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known bacteriocins, plantaricins, which are produced by Lactobacillus plantarum, have
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attracted substantial research attention because of their structural diversity and high
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antimicrobial activity. More than 20 kinds of plantaricins have been identified to date, which
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are distributed in every class of bacteriocins and range in size from 1-10 kDa. Some
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plantaricins have been reported as candidate natural food antiseptic agents in the food
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industry. For instance, plantaricin ZJ008,11 a newly identified bacteriocin produced by L.
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plantarum ZJ008, has been studied to control the growth of Escherichia coli, Vibrio
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parahaemolyticus and Staphylococcus spp..
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Despite this wide range of bacteriocins identified, their mechanisms of action against
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bacteria remain elusive, except in a few Class I and IIa bacteriocins. Nisin, a typical Class I
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lantibiotic, is considered to act through pore formation by using lipid II as the docking
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molecule and by inhibiting peptidoglycan biosynthesis.12 And classical Class IIa bacteriocins,
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Pediocin PA-1/AcH, induces ion-selective pores of target cell membrane that cause the
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dissipation of intracellular ATP and depletion of the proton motive force.13 Although previous 4
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studies have provided a basis for understanding the action of bacteriocins, the specific
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mechanisms of action for bacteriocins need to be further elucidated, both at the cellular and
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molecular levels.
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Numerous bacteriocins have been purified and characterized to date; however, only nisin
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and pediocin PA-1 are currently commercially available in the USA and Europe, 5 and few
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studies have focused on B. cereus-targeting bacteriocins. Thus, in order to best inhibit the
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growth of B. cereus in food and develop more antibacterial products, abundant information
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on B. cereus-targeting bacteriocins need to be explored. In this study, we identified L.
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plantarum GZ1-27, isolated from a traditional Dong-nationality kipper that showed
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broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and inhibited both bacteria of primary spoilage and
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pathogenic bacteria. We further purified the bacteriocin produced by L. plantarum GZ1-27
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toward elucidating its cellular and molecular mechanisms against B. cereus.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Bacterial Strains and Media. Samples were collected from traditional kipper of Dong
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nationality in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, China. Lactic acid
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bacteria (LAB) strains were statically cultivated in De Man Rogosa Sharpe (MRS) broth at 30
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°C. All indicator bacteria strains were cultured in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth at 37 °C, while the
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fungal strains were grown in potato dextrose agar at 30 °C.
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Screening for the Bacteriocin Producers. The screening of bacteriocin-producing
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LABs was performed according to antibacterial activity which was measured by the agar well
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diffusion method using Escherichia coil ATCC 25922 and B. cereus AS 1.1846 as indicator 5
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strains.14 In brief, 1 mL of culture (about 108 cells) was seeded into 100 mL of LB agar (1.5%,
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w/v) at 50 °C. The culture was then poured into a sterile 10-cm-diameter plate and dried.
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Every single colony isolated from the samples was inoculated into 10 mL of MRS medium
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and cultured at 30 °C for 48 h. To produce the cell-free supernatant (CFS), the supernatants
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were collected by centrifugated at 10,000 ×g for 10 min (4 °C), and then filtered using a
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0.22-µm pore-size water filter. Thereafter, 50 µL CFSs were added into per 5-mm-diameter
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well. The plate was incubated for 12 h at 37 °C and the antimicrobial activity was measured
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on the basis of the diameter of the inhibition zone.15
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After inoculating the positive strains into 100 mL of MRS, they were further screened for
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antibacterial activity using more indicator strains (Gram-positive strains: Bacillus pumilus, B.
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thermosphacta, S. aureus, Clostridium sporogenes, and L. monocytogenes; Gram-negative
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strains: Aeromonas hydrophila, E. coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Salmonella enteritidis).
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The pH values of CFSs were adjusted to 5.5 by 5 M NaOH.
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Identification of L. plantarum GZ1-27. The bacteriocin-producing strain GZ1-27 was
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identified according to morphological, biochemical and physiological characteristics, and
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genotypic identification. One pair of commonly used 16S rRNA gene primers (27F, 1492R)
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were used for PCR amplification.16 Then the purified PCR products were sequenced by
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Sangon Biotech Co., Ltd.. The BLASTN program was used to compare the DNA sequence.
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The phylogenic tree was constructed with Mega 7.0 to determine the evolutionary
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relationship of strain GZ1-27.
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Purification of Plantaricin GZ1-27. The plantaricin GZ1-27 was purified using
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ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-50 chromatography, and reverse-phase HPLC
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(RP-HPLC). 30 mL overnight L. plantarum GZ1-27 culture was added into 1 L of MRS and
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statically cultured at 30°C for 36 h to produce the bacteriocin. After centrifugation at 10,000
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×g for 30 min (4 °C), the CFS was concentrated to one-third of the original volume using a
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rotary evaporator. Next, ammonium sulfate was gently added to the concentrated CFS until
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reaching 50% (v/v) saturation, and, after stirring overnight at 4 °C, the precipitate was
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collected and resuspended in 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate-citric acid buffer (pH 3.8,
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pH of the fermentation supernatant).
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The active sample was loaded onto Sephadex G-50 columns (80 × 2.0 cm) and eluted at
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a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min using disodium hydrogen phosphate-citric acid buffer. After
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collection with automatic collector, the highest active fraction was scanned to determine the
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maximal absorption wavelength. The fraction was then precipitated by mixing with methanol
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(1:1, v/v) and vortexing vigorously for 1 min. The concentrated active supernatant was
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further fractionated using an UltiMate 3000 HPLC system with photodiode array detector
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(Dionex, Sunnyvale, CA) equipped with a HC-C18 (5 µm, 250 mm × 4.6 mm i.d.) column
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(Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA). The bacteriocin was eluted using a linear biphasic
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gradient of acetonitrile/Milli-Q water (10–95%) over 35 min at a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. At
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each step of the purification process, antibacterial activity was measured with the agar well
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diffusion assay using B. cereus as the indicator strain and expressed as international units
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compared with that formed by nisin, and the protein concentration was measured using the
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Bradford method. All experiments were repeated in three times.
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Determination of the Primary Structure of Plantaricin GZ1-27. MALDI-TOF-MS 7
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(Bruker Daltonic, Bremen, Germany) was performed to determine the molecular mass of
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purified bacteriocin. And α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (HCCA) was used as the matrix.
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Peptide sequence was analysis using Xevo G2-S Q-TOF-MS/MS instrument (Waters, Milford,
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MA) in positive-ion mode with electrospray ionization (ESI) source. The N-terminal amino
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acid sequence of purified plantaricin GZ1-27 was analyzed at Applied Protein Technology
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(Shanghai, China) using automated Edman degradation.
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Plantaricin GZ1-27 Stability: Effect of Heat, pH, and Enzymes. The purified
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plantaricin GZ1-27 was used to measure the stability of the bacteriocin. The influence of
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temperature on the activity of GZ1-27 was examined by heating the bacteriocin at 60 °C for
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10/30 min, 80 °C for 10/30 min, 100 °C for 10/30 min, or 121 °C for 20 min, and the
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long-term thermostability was tested during storage at 37 °C for 2 weeks and at 4 °C for 3
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months. To determine the effect of pH on antimicrobial activity, the pH of plantaricin GZ1-27
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was adjusted to range from 2-10 using sterile 1 M HCl and 1 M NaOH. After maintaining the
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samples at 37 °C for 30 min, the residual bacteriocin activities were measured at different pH
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values without adjustment to the initial pH.15 To assess the enzyme sensitivity of plantaricin
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GZ1-27, the samples were treated with trypsin (pH 7.5, 10 mM PBS), proteinase K (pH 7.5,
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50 mM Tris-HCl), papain (pH 7.5, 10 mM PBS), and pepsin (pH 2.0, 0.1 M HCl) at their
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optimal pH values, respectively.17 The final concentrations of all enzymes were 1.0 mg/mL.
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After 30 min of incubation at 37 °C, the reaction was stopped by heating at 100 °C for 5 min
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to inactivate the enzymes. The samples were subsequently adjusted to the control pH and
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assayed for antimicrobial activity. The plantaricin GZ1-27 at the original pH (pH 3.8) without
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any heat or enzyme treatments was used as the control sample. The agar well diffusion assay 8
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Determination of Bacteriocin Activity. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of
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plantaricin GZ1-27 against B. cereus was determined on the basis of Clinical and Laboratory
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Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines.18 Bacteria at the logarithmic growth phase were
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adjusted to an OD600 of 0.4 and diluted 100-fold in Mueller Hinton Broth (MHB), and 1024
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µg/mL GZ1-27 was 2-fold serially diluted in disodium hydrogen phosphate-citric acid buffer.
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Subsequently, 50 µL of each bacterial suspension and serially diluted bacteriocin aliquot were
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mixed at a 1:1 (v/v) ratio in sterile 96-well plates. The activity of nisin (Nisin Z, >90% purity)
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(J & K Chemical Technology, Shanghai, China) was measured for comparison. For negative
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controls, the bacteria were mixed with disodium hydrogen phosphate-citric acid buffer. After
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static incubation for 24 h at 37 °C, the MICs were determined by testing the OD600 in a
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microplate reader.
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Time-killing Kinetics. The kinetics of B. cereus killing was assessed as previously
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described.19 In brief, overnight-cultured bacteria were washed with PBS (10 mM, pH 7.4) ,
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adjusted to an OD600 of 0.4, and exposed to 1× or 2× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 or 1× MIC
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nisin at 37 °C for 0–150 min. At fixed time points, 1-mL aliquots were collected, 10-fold
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serially diluted, and plated on LB plates (200 µL/plate), and after incubation at 37 °C for 18 h,
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the colonies were counted.
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Leakage of K+. Log-phase B. cereus cells were adjusted to an OD600 of 0.4, and then the
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cell suspensions were incubated with 1× or 2× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27, or 1× MIC nisin for
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0, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, and 90 min. The cells treated with PBS alone were used as control. After
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centrifugation at 5000 ×g for 10 min (4 °C), the supernatants were filtered through 0.22-µm
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filters and the K+ concentrations were measured on an Optima 8000 plasma atomic emission
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spectrometry (PerkinElmer Inc., Waltham, MA).20
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Flow Cytometry. Bacterial membrane integrity was assayed by measuring the uptake of
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propidium iodide.21 Log-phase B. cereus cells were treated with plantaricin GZ1-27 at 0.5×,
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1×, or 2× MIC. Following incubation at 37 °C for 15 min, the bacterial cells were centrifuged,
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washed, and fixed with propidium iodide at a final concentration of 10 µg/mL at 37 °C for 15
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min. After removing unbound dye, the fluorescence intensity was measured using an Accuri
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C6 flow cytometer (BD Biosciences, Ann Arbor, MI). For each sample, 40,000 events were
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collected, and detected at excitation wavelength (488 nm) and emission wavelength (525 nm).
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B. cereus treated with PBS served as control.
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Confocal Laser-scanning Microscopy (CLSM). Membrane permeability and dynamic
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changes were evaluated using the LIVE/DEAD BacLight Bacterial Viability Kit vital-staining
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probe mixture (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). Late-log-phase B. cereus cells with an OD600 of
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0.4 were treated with plantaricin GZ1-27 at 1× MIC (final concentration) at 37 °C for 0, 5, 15,
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and 30 min. After washing three times with PBS, the cells were mixed with SYTO9 and
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propidium iodide stains, and incubated in the dark at 37 °C for 15 min. Finally, fluorescence
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images were collected using an ULraVIEW VoX CLSM system, (PerkinElmer Inc.
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Massachusetts) with excitation/emission wavelengths of 490/635 nm and 480/500 nm for
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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy
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(TEM). SEM and TEM were used to examine ultrastructural changes in B. cereus exposed to
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plantaricin GZ1-27. Log-phase B. cereus cells with an OD600 of 0.4 were treated with
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plantaricin GZ1-27 at 1× MIC for 30 and 60 min. After centrifugation at 5000 ×g for 10 min
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(4 °C), cell pellets were harvested, washed three times with PBS, and fixed overnight with
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2.5% glutaraldehyde at 4 °C. Subsequently, the cells were dehydrated by incubating with a
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series of cold ethanol solutions (30, 50, 70, 90%; 10 min each), and then replaced ethanol
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with tertiary butyl alcohol. After drying and coating with gold–palladium, the bacterial
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specimens were examined using an EVO-LS10 SEM system (CARL ZEISS, Oberkochen,
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Germany). For TEM analysis, after dehydration, the cells were infiltrated with acetone and
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epoxy resin over 24 h, polymerized at 60 °C for 48 h. and Then samples were sectioned with
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an ultramicrotome and stained using uranyl acetate and lead citrate. The bacterial specimens
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were examined using JEM-1011 TEM instrument (JEOL Japan Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo,
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Japan). The cells treated with PBS were used as control.
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Real-Time Quantitative PCR. The cytotoxins Nhe (NheA, NheB, and NheC) and Hbl
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(HblL2, HblL1, and HblB) related to the diarrheal disease are encoded by the nheABC operon
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and hblCDA operon, respectively.2 The gene glmS encodes glucosamine-6-phosphate
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synthase (GlmS), which is critical for the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan.22
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ftsZ encodes FtsZ, a guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) that mediates cytokinesis in bacteria,
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which is involved in septum synthesis and cell division.
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mechanism of plantaricin GZ1-27 against B. cereus at the molecular level, we measured the
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expression levels of thes eight genes (hblC, hblD, hblA, nheA, nheB, nheC, glmS, ftsZ) after
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B. cereus cells were exposed to 0.8× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 for 5 h, and then the total
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RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent and reverse-transcribed using All-In-One RT Master
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Mix (Applied Biological Materials Inc., Vancouver, Canada); the obtained cDNA was
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amplified using an AceQ qPCR SYBR Green Master Kit (Vazyme Biotech, Nanjing, China).
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B. cereus cells that were not treated with plantaricin GZ1-27 were used as the control group.
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Gene samples were quantified using the StepOne-Plus RT-PCR System (Applied Biosystems,
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Carlsbad, CA). The stably expressed gene, gatB-Yqey, was used as the reference gene,24 and
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the relative quantification was analyzed by the 2-∆∆CT method.
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Statistical Analysis. The values were evaluated using IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0
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software, with significant differences (P < 0.05) determined according to one-way ANONA.
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All data are expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD) of at least three replicates for
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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Screening of Strain GZ1-27. Strain GZ1-27 was selected for the further study because
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of its significantly inhibitory activity against several spoilage bacteria, including B.
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thermosphacta, P. fluorescens, and A. baumannii, and pathogenic bacteria, including B.
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cereus, S. aureus, S. typhimurium, L. monocytogenes, and E. coli. However, Strain GZ1-27
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showed almost no activity against fungi, including Aspergillus niger, Penicillium notatum,
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and Rhizopus stolonifer. Moreover, lactic acid and acetic acid exhibited no antibacterial
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activity at the pH of 5.5, conforming that observed antimicrobial activities were not caused
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Identification of Strain GZ1-27. According to the Gram staining, strain GZ1-27 was a
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Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, and rod-shaped bacillus. This strain neither exhibited
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catalase activity nor produced gas. These features illustrated that GZ1-27 belonged to
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homo-fermentative Lactobacillus. Moreover, sugar fermentation assay tests indicated that
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strain GZ1-27 could ferment arabinose, cellobiose, aesculin, fructose, galactose, glucose,
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lactose, maltose, mannose, mannitol, melibiose, raffinose, ribose, sorbitol, sucrose, trehalose,
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and xylose, but not rhamnose. According to the Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,
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strain GZ1-27 should be L. plantarum. In addition, the 16S rDNA of this strain (GenBank
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accession no. MH155966) showed 100% similarity with that of L. plantarum WCFS1 (Figure
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1). Taken together, this strain was identified as L. plantarum, and the bacteriocin produced
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was designated as plantaricin GZ1-27.
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The use of L. plantarum in food has been documented for a long period, and most studies
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support its safety aspect.25 To date, more than 200 L. plantarum strains have been isolated.
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Several strains were studied as potential food preservatives with cultured strains or in the
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production of antibacterial substances. L. plantarum GZ1-27 has been shown to be capable of
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secreting bacteriocin, and inhibit the growth of many pathogens and spoilage bacteria, which
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highlights that L. plantarum GZ1-27 is useful as a bio-preservative to extend the shelf-life of
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foods.
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Purification of Plantaricin GZ1-27. Following ammonium sulfate precipitation, the
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specific activity of the plantaricin increased to 262.44 IU/mg. After flowing though Sephadex
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G-50 column, the fractions in tubes 33 to 37 showing antibacterial activity. The absorption
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spectrum of the fraction showing the highest activity (fraction 35) revealed an absorbance 13
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maximum at 233 nm, which was set as the UV detection wavelength in the final RP-HPLC
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purification. A single clear peak showing activity was detected at a retention time of 16.41
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min (Figure 2A). Parameters related to purification efficiency were summarized in Table 1.
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After purification, the specific activity increased from 246.59 IU/mg to 2601.24 IU/mg. The
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classical three-step method employed in this study to obtain pure plantaricin GZ1-27 is
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commonly used and has successfully purified diverse bacteriocins from culture supernatants,
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such as plantaricin 163,16 plantaricin ZJ008,11 garvicin A,26 and enterocins 7A and 7B.27
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Sequence Analysis of Plantaricin GZ1-27. Using HCCA as the matrix,
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MALDI-TOF/MS revealed the charge 1 (z = 1) molecular mass ions of m/z 998.469 [M +
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Na]+, indicating that the molecular mass of the purified GZ1-27 was 975 Da (Figure 1A).
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According to Q-TOF-MS/MS analysis, the fragmentation of the m/z 976.4774 ion yielded–y
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fragment ions (y8 and y3) at m/z 733.3490 and m/z 314.1800 and a series of -b fragment ions
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(b2–b10) at m/z 821.3860 → 720.3390 → 663.3110 → 566.2270 → 469.2043 → 412.1939 →
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341.1910 → 244.1610 → 187.1290 (Figure 2B). According to the peptide-fragmentation
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nomenclature proposed by Roepstorff and Fohlman,28 the amino acid sequence of plantaricin
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GZ1-27
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(VSGPAGPPGTH) starting from the N-terminus. The sequence was calculated for
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C43H65N11O15, with the theoretical molecular mass of 976.4740 [M + H]+. This result was
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consistent with that obtained through N-terminal sequencing performed using Edman
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degradation.
was
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Val-Ser-Gly-Pro-Ala-Gly-Pro-Pro-Gly-Thr-His
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Although the molecular weight of bacteriocins is generally greater than 2 kDa, there are
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also some smaller bacteriocins reported, such as bifidocin A (1198.68 Da),29 plantaricin 14
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ZJ008(1334.77 Da),11 plantaricin JLA-9 (1044 Da),30 and plantaricin K25 (1772 Da).31 The
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molecular mass of plantaricin GZ1-27 is different from that of other bacteriocins, and the
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sequence is not the same as the known bacteriocins in the NCBI protein BLAST analysis.
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Thus, it represents a novel bacteriocin. The single linear peptide GZ1-27 contains no
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lanthionine or YGNGVXC (the characteristic sequence of Class Ⅱa bacteriocins) and should
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be categorized as a Class Ⅱd bacteriocin.
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Stability of Plantaricin GZ1-27. Plantaricin GZ1-27 retained >90% of its antibacterial
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activity after heating at 60 °C or 80 °C for 10 and 30 min. Moreover, after storage at 37 °C
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for 14 d, it still retained 96.3% of its inhibitory activity, and >90% inhibitory activity was
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retained even after storage for 3 months at 4 °C. These results suggested that plantaricin
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GZ1-27 was thermostable and could be stored for a long period at room temperature.
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Meanwhile, plantaricin GZ1-27 was considerably stable in food processing, because after
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heating for 20 min at 121 °C, antibacterial activity retained 84.1% of its original.
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Plantaricin GZ1-27 was stable at low pH (2.0–6.0), but lost most part of its inhibitory
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activity at pH 7.0 and the activity completely disappeared at pH > 8.0. This agrees with
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previous findings that neutral and alkaline conditions readily inactivate most bacteriocins,
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including nisin, plantaricin JLA-9,30 and bacteriocin R1333.19 However, plantaricin GZ1-27
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might be suitable for preservation because of its relatively good acid tolerance. Moreover,
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plantaricin GZ1-27 was slightly sensitive to proteinase K and papain, and insensitive to
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trypsin and pepsin.
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Antibacterial Effect of Plantaricin GZ1-27 to B. cereus. According to measurements
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performed as CLSI guidelines, the MIC of plantaricin GZ1-27 against B. cereus was
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determined to be 16 µg/mL, whereas that of nisin was 32 µg/mL, which suggested that
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plantaricin GZ1-27 and nisin exhibit antibacterial activity within the same order of magnitude.
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Similar results were obtained in the killing kinetic analysis of B. cereus caused by the
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bacteriocin (Figure 3). After treatment with 32 µg/mL plantaricin GZ1-27, the number of B.
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cereus cells decreased drastically within 30 min, and the log10 CFU value dropped to less than
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1 in 60 min. Moreover, 16 µg/mL GZ1-27 and 32 µg/mL nisin killed all the B. cereus cells
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within 2 h. These results demonstrated that plantaricin GZ1-27 exhibited rapid and sustained
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inhibitory activity against B. cereus and that the bactericidal effect was time- and
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dose-dependent.
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Numerous bacteriocins have been found to show notable antibacterial activity against
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foodborne pathogens. However, to the best of our knowledge, only two studies have
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examined the effect of plantaricin on B. cereus. Wen et al.31 examined the extent of cell
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membrane damage of plantaricin K25 under SEM and TEM, while Zhao et al.30 studied the
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mode of action of plantaricin JLA-9 contributing to the outgrowth inhibition of B. cereus
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spores. According to the MIC values and time-killing kinetics parameters determined in the
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present study, plantaricin GZ1-27 shows similarly high activity to plantaricin K25 and
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plantaricin JLA-9. To gain further mechanistic insights into the mode of action of plantaricin
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GZ1-27, we next investigated the cellular and molecular changes in B. cereus treated with
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Membrane Permeability Detection. Determining the extent of potassium ions released
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drugs to cell membranes. Compared with control cells, plantaricin GZ1-27- and nisin-treated
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cells showed a drastic loss of intracellular K+, which was observed after 5 min (Figure 4).
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The extracellular K+ concentration of cells treated with 1× MIC GZ1-27 was increased up to
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0.70 mg/mL after 1 h, and similar results were obtained after treatment with 2× MIC nisin.
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With an increase in treatment time, the K+ concentration of the supernatant increased and
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remained stable in 60 min. These results demonstrated that both plantaricin GZ1-27 and nisin
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increased the permeability of the B. cereus cell membrane, which led to the efflux of K+.
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Similar results were reported for antimicrobial peptide F1,32 antimicrobial peptide
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AMP-jsa9,20 lactosporin, 33 and two-peptide (LtnA1 and LtnA2). 34
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Effect of Plantaricin GZ1-27 on the Integrity and Viability of B. cereus Cells.
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Propidium iodide is a nucleus-staining reagent that cannot pass through the intact cell
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membrane, but can enter through damaged cell membranes and bind to cellular DNA. Thus,
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the amount of propidium iodide uptake can reflect the extent of cell membrane damage. After
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incubation of B. cereus with 0.5×, 1×, and 2× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 for 15 min, the ratio of
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stained cells reached 20.1%, 39.8%, and 90.7%, respectively (Figure 5). Given that the
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propidium iodide uptake amount increased markedly with an increase in the MIC, these
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results demonstrate that the B. cereus cell membrane integrity was impaired and that the
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bacterial membrane destruction occurred in a dose-dependent manner.
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Impairment of cell membrane integrity can lead to cell death. Thus, we next examined
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the viability of B. cereus cells incubated with 1× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 for 30 min using
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the LIVE/DEAD BacLight bacterial stain. Viable cells with intact membranes are stained
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Transition from green to red fluorescence was observed with an increase of treatment time
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(Figure 6): non-treated cells were stained green, which indicated an intact cell membrane and
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uptake of only SYTO9, whereas red signals were enhanced at 5 and 10 min and covered
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almost the entire field of view at 30 min, which indicated membrane integrity loss in most of
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the treated cells. The incessantly accumulation of red fluorescence in B.cereus cells strongly
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suggests that the antibacterial activity of plantaricin GZ1-27 is mediated through disruption
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of bacterial membrane integrity, and that the membrane destruction worsens progressively
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which eventually causes cell death. Similar results have been observed with other
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bacteriocins such as plantaricin K25,31 bifidocin A,29 and enterocin CRL35.35
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Morphological and Ultrastructural Changes of B. cereus Cells after Exposure to
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Plantaricin GZ1-27. Under the view of SEM (5,000× magnification), integrated B. cereus
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cells were plump rods, and featured smooth and brilliant membrane surfaces, and some of the
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cells even showed vigorous binary fission (Figure 7A). After GZ1-27 treatment at 1× MIC for
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30 min, the cell morphology changed markedly, with creping, wrinkles, and pores evident on
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the cell surface (Figure 7B), which suggested that GZ1-27 acted directly on the cell wall.
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When the treatment time was extended to 60 min, most of the cells were noticeably distorted;
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the boundary of the cell membrane became blurred and adhesion between cells occurred due
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to the loss of cell wall integrity (Figure 7C). The loss of dissepiment also reflected a gradual
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stoppage of bifurcation. These observations indicated that plantaricin GZ1-27 induced
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alterations in the morphology of B. cereus cells in a time-dependent manner.
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TEM (30,000× magnification) was performed to further observe the ultrastructural and
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intracellular changes. In the absence of GZ1-27, the bacterial cells retained an intact cell wall
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that tightly adhered to the membrane and presented a dense and even internal organization
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(Figure 7D). Upon exposure to GZ1-27 for 30 min, pores formed in the cell wall, the
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intracellular components leaked out, the cytoplasm became unconsolidated, and the cells
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clearly displayed plasmolysis (Figure 7E). At 60 min, the cellular structure and intracellular
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organization deteriorated markedly; the cell membrane became dissolved, and the leaked
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cytoplasmic material was found to be scattered in the area surrounding the cells, and thus the
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cells lost their basic structure (Figure 7F). These results indicated that plantaricin GZ1-27
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induced notable disruption of the structure and intracellular organization of B. cereus cells.
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The SEM and TEM results implied that the mode of action of plantaricin GZ1-27
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against B. cereus involves pore formation on the cytoplasmic membrane, which is a critical
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process in the action of several bacteriocins.36 This, combined with the results above,
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suggests that plantaricin GZ1-27 adsorbs on the target cell membrane, increases the
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permeability of the membrane, and induces the leakage of K+ and other ions from sensitive
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cells; consequently, pores form, and the cell structure deforms resulting in loss of intracellular
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organization. According to these results, the mode of action of plantaricin GZ1-27 most
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resembles that of Class II bacteriocins.37 Similar results were obtained in the case of E. coli
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treated with lactocin XN8-A38 and L. monocytogenes treated with enterocin CRL35.35
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Effect of Plantaricin GZ1-27 on B. cereus Gene Expression. RT-PCR analyses
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revealed that, compared with the control group, the expression of all eight genes was
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downregulated when growing in the presence of plantaricin GZ1-27 (Figure 8). The 19
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expression levels of glmS and ftsZ showed a substantial reduction (87.9% and 76.1%,
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respectively), and the expression of genes in the hblDCA and nheABC complexes was
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downregulated from 31.5% to 68.0%. The downregulated expression of these genessuggested
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that the metabolism of B. cereus was markedly inhibited by plantaricin GZ1-27.
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A previous study demonstrated that the bacteriocin AS-48 reduced enterotoxin
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production in B. cereus using a diarrheic enterotoxin-detection kit; however, it was unclear
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whether the reduction of this toxin was due to a decrease in the total number of bacterial cells
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or the inhibition of toxin production in B. cereus.39 Our results suggested that the bacteriocin
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could inhibit the production of the diarrheal toxins of B. cereus according to the
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downregulated expression of the cytotoxin production-related genes hblDCA and nheABC.
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Some previous studies have demonstrated that the synthesis of cell wall peptidoglycan is
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inhibited by several antibiotics such as nisin12 and lacticin 3147.40 These bacteriocins target
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lipid II, suppress peptidoglycan synthesis, and then inhibit or kill bacteria. Since we found
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that plantaricin GZ1-27 inhibited expression of the glmS gene, GlmS could also be a potential
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antibacterial target.41 A similar phenomenon was observed in a study of difcidin and bacilysin,
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which downregulated the expression of genes involved in Xanthomonas virulence, protein
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synthesis, and cell division.42
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In conclusion, the above results indicate that plantaricin GZ1-27 inhibited the growth of
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B. cereus both in cellular and molecular level, and plantaricin GZ1-27 could be developed as
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a candidate bio-preservative for use in the food industry.
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MIC, seemal inhibitory concentration; CLSI, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; 20
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CFU, colony forming unit(s); CFS, cell-free supernatant; Hbl, hemolysin BL; Nhe,
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nonhemolytic
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reverse-phase HPLC; CLSM, confocal laser-scanning microscopy; SEM, scanning electron
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microscopy; TEM, transmission electron microscopy.
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SUPPORTING INFORMATION
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The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at
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DOI:
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Table S1 showing antimicrobial activity profile of Lactobacillus plantarum GZ1-27. Table S2
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showing stability of plantaricin GZ1-27. Table S3 showing primers used in the study. Figure
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S1 showing the antibacterial activity of fraction samples purifed by Sephadex G-50 (A), and
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the absorption spectrum of fraction 35 (B).
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Corresponding Author
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enterotoxin;
HCCA,
α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic
acid;
RP-HPLC,
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ORCID: :0000-0003-0934-7847
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Funding
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This work was financially supported by grants from the National Research Program of China
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(No. 2015BAD16B04).
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The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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Figure 1. The phylogenetic tree of strain GZ1-27 based on Lactobacillus spp..
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Figure 2. RP-HPLC analysis (A) and Q-TOF-MS/MS analysis (B) of plantaricin GZ1-27.
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Figure 3. Time-killing curves of plantaricin GZ1-27 on B. cereus cells.
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Figure 4. Effects of plantaricin GZ1-27 on K+ concentrations in the B. cereus cell culture
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supernatant.
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Figure 5. (A) Effects of plantaricin GZ1-27 on the membrane integrity; and (B) Propidium
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iodide uptake of B. cereus cells.
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Figure 6. CLSM images of B. cereus cells.
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Figure 7. SEM and TEM images of B. cereus cells.
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(A) and (D) control; (B) and (E) treated with 1× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 for 30 min; (C) and
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(F) treated with 1× MIC plantaricin GZ1-27 for 60 min. Pores (arrows #1), wrinkles (arrows
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#2), adhesion (arrows #3), plasmolysis (arrows #4), and cytoplasmic dispersion (arrows #5)
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are visible.
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Figure 8. The relative expression levels of eight genes after treatment with plantaricin
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GZ1-27.
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The formula 2-∆∆Ct was used to determine relative fold differences in expression levels for
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each gene. Values were normalized to the levels of the housekeeping gene gatB-Yqey. * P