• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.411-416
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• 2003

An effort was attempted to utilize an under-utilized protein source, rice bran protein, in coating or wrapping food material for the purpose of protection them from oxidation and bacterial infection. However, the utilization of rice bran protein as a food coating material is limited because the rice bran protein coating material itself can be spoiled by a bacterial infection. Therefore, this study was conducted to produce the economical and antibacterial rice bran protein film by utilizing rice bran and bacteriocin-producing microorganism. Bacteriocin produced by Pseudomonas putida 21025 was partially purified after 33h of shaking incubation at 30$^{\circ}C$. The amount of amino-type nitrogen did not increase in the rice bran protein film containing the bacteriocin any more after gradual increase upto the content of 0.22％ for 8 days, while that without the bacteriocin increased continuously, implying that application of the bacteriocin to the rice bran had positive effects on prolonging the shelf-life of not only film itself but also the foods wrapped by this film.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.285-290
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• 2003

This study was conducted to select the bacteriocin-producing microoreanism cultivated in the rice bran culture and to characterize the produced bacteriocin for the further purpose of economical and anti-bacterial rice bran protein film. Pseudomonas putida 21025 was cultivated from rice bran and identified as a producer of a bacteriocin which showed bactericidal activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa 9027. Bacteriocin produced by Pseudomonas putida 21025 showed a broad spectrum of activity against spoilage and soil bacteria. The activity of the bacteriocin produced by Pseudomonas putida 21025 decreased after 1 hr of staying at the temperature of $50^{\circ}C$, and with the presence of some organic solvents, except hexane and ethanol. However, the bacteriocin activity was stable throughout the pH ranges of 6-9 for 2 hrs, at the temperature lower than $50^{\circ}C$, and with the presence of ethanol for 3 hrs. The bacteriocin was partially purified by 50% ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by subsequent dialysis. Direct detection of the partially purified bacteriocin on SDS-PAGE suggested that it had an apparent molecular mass of about 21.6 kDa.