
Anti-bacterial activity of Lactobacillus plantarum strain SK1 against Listeria monocytogenes is due to lactic acid production.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
AIMS: The aim of this research was to investigate the potential of Lactobacillus plantarum strain SK1 for use as a biological control agent against Listeria monocytogenes and determine its mechanism of anti-listerial activity. METHODS AND RESULTS: Co-growth of Lact. plantarum SK1 and L. monocytogenes UMCC98 in MRS broth showed that anti-listerial activity of Lact. plantarum SK1 occurred during late log/early stationary phase of growth. This coincided with a reduction in broth pH to 4.26. Evidence obtained from the analysis of cell-free culture filtrates of strain SK1 grown in MRS broth using thin-layer chromatography and growth of L. monocytogenes in pH-adjusted culture filtrates suggested that the anti-listerial activity was due to lactic acid production alone. Trials of Lact. plantarum SK1 on radishes stored at 5 degrees C showed that it had statistically significant (P < 0.05) anti-listerial activity. CONCLUSIONS: The anti-listerial activity of Lact. plantarum SK1 was due to lactic acid production alone. A small-scale trial on radishes stored at 5 degrees C showed it to have significant anti-listerial activity in planta. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: This organism has potential as a biological control agent for L. monocytogenes.
PMID: 16313424 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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