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Molecular and Cellular Microbiology / Biomedical Sciences  |  Molecular Genetics, Omics, and Systems Biology

Microbiol. Biotechnol. Lett. 2018; 46(3): 288-299

https://doi.org/10.4014/mbl.1803.03001

Received: March 6, 2018; Accepted: July 13, 2018

Molecular Characterization of Some Antilisterial Bacteriocin Genes from Enterococcus faecium and Pediococcus pentosaceus

Nagwa El-Arabi 1, Rasha Salim 2, Nivien Abosereh 2 and Abdelhadi Abdelhadi 1*

1Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt, 2National Research Center (NRC), Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

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Food bio preservation is of major interest in the food industry. Many types of antimicrobial compounds can be produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB), including bacteriocins. Bacteriocins increase the shelf-life of food by decreasing some food-borne diseases. In this study, a multi-coding sequence of bacteriocin genes was used for primer design to produce bacteriocin genes in Enterococcus faecium AH2 strain and Pediococcus pentosaceus AH1. Multi-coding sequences were aligned to detect conserved sequences in the bacteriocin gene. Eight genes encoding proteins involved in bacteriocin production were isolated and sequenced, including six from E. faecium AH2 (entA, entI, entF, entR, orfA2, orfA3) and two from P. pentoceseus AH1 (papA, pedB), and all gene sequences were deposited in the Gen Bank database under accession numbers LC064146–LC064151, LC101300, and LC101789, respectively. P. pentosaceus AH1 and E. faecium AH2 strains displayed bacteriocin activities of 2610 AU mL-1and 690 AU mL-1and inhibition zones of 26 mm and 19 mm, respectively. Overexpression of entA in E. faecium AH2 increased the bacteriocin and antimicrobial activities.

Keywords: Bacteriocins, lactic acid bacteria, enterocin A, pediocin A, antimicrobial activity

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