An improved and simplified method for the large‐scale purification of pediocin PA‐1 produced by <i>Pediococcus acidilactici</i>
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Abstract
The bacteriocin pediocin PA-1 produced by Pediococcus acidilactici PAC 1.0 offers significant potential as a food preservative and as an antimicrobial agent in the medical area. However, low production yields and difficulties in obtaining significant amounts of pure pediocin PA-1 have limited, in part, its biochemical and physical characterization. In the present study, we describe a simple and more efficient purification strategy for pediocin PA-1. A hydrophobic interaction chromatography step using an octyl-Sepharose column was introduced for final purification and polishing. The new method is a scalable one, uses only two steps and yields highly purified pediocin PA-1 with a recovery as high as 73%, which is at least two to three times more than that of the methods reported so far. Highly purified, biologically active pediocin PA-1 of the correct molecular mass (4624 Da, with two disulphide bridges) was obtained. Fourier-transform infrared analysis runs at p2H 6 indicated that pediocin PA-1 was more structured than similar pediocin PA-1 samples purified using the earlier purification scheme.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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