마늘을 각종 기능성 식품 재료로 이용하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 산지별 마늘의 화학성분 및 항균활성을 조사하였다. 색도 중 L값은 53.41∼57.15, a값은 -3.49∼-4.38 및 b값은 11.47∼17.55였으며, 일반성분 중 수분, 조단백질, 조지방, 가용성 무질소물, 조섬유 및 회분 함량은 각각 65.24∼71.96, 6.24∼9.35, 0.21∼0.49, 19.01∼22.72, 0.58∼0.95 및 1.01∼2.01%로 나타났다. 산지별 마늘의 주요 무기성분으로는 Na, Mg, K, Ca 및 P였으며, 그 함량은 각각 27.22∼112.03, 18.17∼32.56, 242.16∼569.28, 28.60∼63.93 및 117.72∼265.21 mg%였고, 유리당은 sucrose, glucose 및 fructose였다. 마늘은 17종의 아미노산이 분석되었으며, 그 중 proline, arginine, glutamic acid 및 aspartic acid가 주요 아미노산으로 나타났고, 총 아미노산 함량은 2,709.33∼4,561.04 mg%이었다. 비타민 C 함량은 2.966∼8.673 mg%이었다. 산지별 마늘의 주요 지방산으로는 linoleic acid, oleic acid 및 palmitic acid였으며, 불포화지방산이 72.18∼74.35%였고, 포화지방산은 25.65∼27.82%였다. 산지별 마늘 물 추출물을 이용하여 항균활성을 측정한 결과, 농도 의존적으로 그램 음성 및 양성 모든 세균에서 높은 항균활성을 보였다.

Continentalic acid (CA, (-)-pimara-8(14), 15-diene-19-oic acid) was isolated from the roots of Aralia cordata (Araliaceae) using bioassay-guided fractionation of a crude chloroform extract. The antibacterial activity of CA against Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus gallinarium was estimated by determining minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs). CA exhibited potent activity against standard vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and vancomycin-susceptible enterococci (VSE), with MICs and MBCs values between 4 and 8μg/mL and 4 and 16μg/mL, respectively. This compound exhibited potent activity against strains of VRE, which are highly resistant to clinically useful antibiotics. These findings suggest that continentalic acid may be useful in controlling enterococcal infection.

Antimicrobial peptides represent an essential alternative first line of defense. Naturally occurring molecules associated with the innate immune system in disease-bearing vectors such as mosquito, tick could be the target for searching more potent and effective agents to combat against the pathogens resistant to conventionally used antibiotics. Recently, we explored expression of a defensinlike peptide, longicin from the hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. Longicin and one of its synthetic partial analog (P4) displayed antimicrobial/fungicidal/parasiticidal activity and, therefore, proposed to be a chemotherapeutic compounds against tick-borne disease organisms. Structural characterization of antimicrobial peptides is very important to understand the peptide activity. In addition, harmful side effects such as lysis of red blood cells or cytotoxicity towards mammalian host cells commonly associated with antimicrobial peptides as potential therapeutic agent should also be elucidated. In this study, we analyzed some structural features using bioinformatics tool, CD Spectroscopy, and also determined cytolytic activity of P4 peptide. According to the chemicophysical characteristics, the P4 is suggested to be a cationic peptide with hydrophobic and amphipathic character. The predicted secondary structure indicated the existence of β-sheet which was also observed in modelled tertiary structure. CD spectroscopy results also revealed the existence of a β-sheet and changes of helical content in the presence of membrane-mimic condition. These structural observations on P4 suggest that the antimicrobial activity could be due to the well developed β-sheet. In addition, sequence homology search showed that antimicrobial molecule identified in other ticks and in organisms have the P4 analogous domain at their C-terminal, which indicates P4 as a conserved antimicrobial domain. The peptide P4 also showed less cytolytic activity against various cell lines or erythrocytes of various species. The data presented here strongly suggests that the peptide P4 could be developed as future therapeutic agent against tick-borne microorganisms.

This study is focused on the antimicrobial activity of cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa by the reduction and oxidation reaction of copper and zinc alloy metal fiber filter. Cu/Zn ion is easily makes radicals with molecular hydroperoxide. Especially, hydroperoxide radical shows strong toxicity to the strains. Plasma membrane causes conformational change when hydroperoxide radical binds to plasma membrane. Elution of copper ion from copper and zinc alloy metal fiber is detected in the cyanobacteria solution as 0.5 ppm, and that of zinc ion is 0 ppm respectively. Zinc ion is figured to form a hydroxide in the cyanobacteria solution and precipitated to form a sludge. The concentration of chlorophyll-a in the cyanobacteria solution was proved to be the index of antimicrobial level of Microcystis aeruginosa.

Antimicrobial stability of grape seed extract (ActiVinTM), pine bark extract (Pycnogenol®), and oleoresin rosemary (Herbalox®) on the growth of Aeromonas hydrophila was investigated in cooked ground beef. When compared to the control, the populations of A. hydrophila were most effectively reduced by 4.06 log CFU/g for 1% Pycnogenol® added after cooking at 10 days of refrigerated storage, followed by 3.06 log CFU/g for 1% Pycnogenol® added before cooking and 1.36 log CFU/g for ActiVinTM. Bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities were observed for Pycnogenol® added before and after cooking, respectively. Pycnogenol® consists of heat-labile and heat-stable compounds. ActiVinTM and Pycnogenol® could be considered for use as multifunctional preservatives in meat and meat products.

This study is focused on the possibility of copper alloy metal fiber for an antimicrobial activity in the water soluble metal working fluids. Electrochemical potential of Cu/Zn ion is -268mV, and easily makes radicals with molecular oxygen. Especially, hydroperoxide radical shows strong toxicity to the strains. Plasma membrane causes conformational change when hydroperoxide radical binds to plasma membrane. Elution of copper ion from copper alloy metal fiber is detected in metal working fluid. As a result antimicrobial activity of copper alloy metal fiber in metal working fluid is superior to that of copper fiber.

The periodontal diseases and dental caries are major infectious diseases in oral cavity. Many of the preventive and therapeutic dental products contain the antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory components. But some of these antimicrobial have weak points such as coloration, burning sensation and insolubility in water. We have screened the therapeutic herbal extracts of the Plant Extract Bank for the antimicrobial activity on the major dental pathogens by growth inhibition assay. For the Porphyromonas gingivalis, 8 herbal extracts had an antimicrobial activity, 11 herbal extracts for the Prevotella intermedia, 43 herbal extracts for the Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans and 61 herbal extracts for the Streptococcus mutans. Among these extracts, 6 herbal extracts had an antimicrobial activity for more than 3 species of dental pathogens. These extracts are Araliae Cordatae Radix, Crassirhizomae Rhizoma, Mori Radicis Cortex, Psoraleae Semen, Pini Ramulus and Sieges- beckiae Herba. All of effective extracts were CA group, ethanol extracts. Among these 6 herbal extracts, only Crassirhizomae is known to have a antibacterial effects. Therefore these herbal extracts have a possibility to be a candidate for a major antibacterial components in dental products.

차조기의 30, 50, 70, 95% 에탄올 추출물과 물추출물의 식품 관련 미생물에 대한 항균 활성과 이들 추출물의 분획물에 대한 항균 활성을 살펴보았다. 본 실험에 사용한 차조기의 무기질은 Ca와 Mg 함량이 각각 595.75 mg%와 467.0 mg%으로 가장 많았다. 에탄올 혼합 추출물과 물추출물의 추출 수율은 에탄올 농도가 낮을수록 증가하여 95%에탄올 추출물은 9.3%, 70% 추출물은 16.5%, 50% 추출물은 18.9%, 30% 추출물은 19.4%, 물추출물(0%)에서는 20.8%이었다. 추출용매의 에탄올 농도가 낮아질수록 hexane 층으로 용출되어 나오는 성분은 감소하고 ethyl acetate 층 분획성분은 점차 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 에탄올 추출물과 물 추출물의 항균력은 95%, 70%와 50% 에탄올 추출물이 Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis 및 Pseudomonas areuginosa에 대하여 clear zone을 나타내었다. 추출물을 단계별 계통 분획하여 얻은 분획물의 항균력 실험에서는 ethyl acetate층이 실험 대상 미생물 모두에 대하여 항균 활성을 나타내었으며 에탄올 혼합율이 낮을수록 즉, 30% 에탄올과 물추출물의 ethyl acetate분획물의 저해환이 가장 크게 나타났다. 물 추출물의 ethyl acetate 분획물을 첨가한 액체배양에서 500 ppm의 농도에서는 S. aureus, B. subtilis와 P. aeruginosa에 대하여 대조구의 뚜렷한 증가와 대조적으로 낮은 생균수를 보였으며, 1,000 ppm의 농도에서는 실험 균주 모두에 대하여 배양 24시간 내내 생육이 저해되는 것으로 나타났다. 물 추출과 에탄올 추출의 농도와 항균 활성, 폴리페놀 함량 및 플라보노이드 함량이 비례적인 상관관계에 있는 것으로 나타나지는 않으나 30% 에탄올 추출물과 물 추출물의 ethyl acetate분획물이 폴리페놀 함량이 높고 항균력이 가장 강한 것으로 나타났다.

Most of cosmetics are emulsion products that contain the source of nutrition vegetable oil, mineral oil, natural extract and carbohydrate etc. There are many possibilities to be contaminated by microbials. We investigated the effect of antimicrobial and minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC) with thiamine dilauryl sulfate(TDS), which was prepared to use cosmetic lotion formulation. Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) and Escherichia col(E. coli) were used as test organism. MIC value of TDS was determined aganist microorganism for the growth inhibition by concentration of TDS. From the MIC results, antimicrobial effect of TDS was generally more effective to gram positive than gram negative. Antimicrobial effect with pH value against some microorganism appeared in the following order : pH 5 > pH 6 > pH 7. It showed strong antimicrobial activities against S. aureus, and weak antimicrobial activities against E. coli. If it was possible to determine the formulations with TDS, it would be effective to reduce the artificial preservatives.

Cysteine-silver complexes were prepared and investigated the antimicrobial activity on rubber mat manufactured with waste rubber. We are exposed to harmful bacteria and fungi all the time. We manufactured antimicrobial mat to be imposed to mats that it can prevent generation of bacteria and microorganisms, and restrict their reproduction. Infection of medical devices causes significant morbidity and mortality. For aim of this study, we measured the antimicrobial mat manufactured with cysteine-Ag complex by CCD, FT-IR and NMR. The effect of mole ratio of cysteine-Ag complex on antimicrobial activity to bacteria and fungi is investigated. Reduction rate is evaluated using the Quinn method. Antimicrobial activity of complex on mole ratio 1:4 was effectively inhibited. The complexes had a better antibacterial activity than antifungal activity on rubber mat.

The effect of addition with maesil(Prunus mume) juice for extending the shelf-life of wet noodle was investigated by measuring quality changes such as total microbial count and pH. The Prunus mume juice showed antimicrobial activities against Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, and Escherichia coli. When the wet noodles containing Prunus mume juice were kept at 4℃ for 20 days, it was showed that the drop of pH was not significantly occurred during the storage. Total microbial counts for control exceeded the initial putrefactive criterion level of 1.0×106 cfu/g at 16 days of storage at 4℃. However, total microbial count of wet noodles with the addition of 10%, 20% and 30% Prunus mume juice were 3.0×102 cfu/g, 3.0×102 cfu/g, and 1.5×102 cfu/g, respectively, and these bacterial counts were still less than the criterion level ever at 20 days of storage. The addition of Prunus mume juice extended the shelf-life of wet noodle appreciably.

항생제 및 항균 물질 등의 오, 남용으로 인하여 항생제 내성균들이 등장, 사회적으로 큰 문제가 되고 있으며, 최근에는 식물이나 probiotics 등과 같이 항생제를 대체할 수 있는 물질에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내에서 오래 전부터 민간 요법으로 사용되어 오던 백련초 (Opuntia ficus-indica var. saboten)를 이용하여 in vitro와 in vivo에서 Salmonella enteyica serova. Enteritidis (S. enteritidis), S. enterica serova. Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) DT104 및 Escherichia coli O157:H7에 대한 항균능을 평가하였다 백련초의 수용액이 포함된 Moulter Hinton agar에 Salmonella spp. 및 S. coli O157:H7를 접종한 결과 이들 균에 대한 억제능(inhibitory activity)을 확인할 수 있었다. 백련초 제제를 경구투여한 군에서 분변으로 배출되는 S.typhimurium DT104의 수가 급격히 감소하였고, 낀 후에는 더 이상 분변으로 균이 배출되지 않았으며, intestinal IgA가 유의적으로 증가함이 확인되었다. 본 연구를 통하여 백련초가 in vitro에서 S. enteritis, S. Typhimurium DT104와 E. coli O157:H7대한 항균력을 나타낼 뿐만 아니라 마우스의 gastrointestinal tract에서 역시 Salmonella에 대한 항균력을 보임을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해 백련초 및 그 성분을 이용한 병원성 세균의 제거 및 면역 증진 효과 등과 같은 연구의 필요성이 확인되었고, 그 응용 가능성도 매우 높을 것으로 사료된다.

강 알칼리 이온수인 GC-100X의 항균력을 6가지 주요 식품위해 미생물들에 대해 시험하되 4℃, 25℃ 및 36℃의 서로 다른 온도조건과 유기물 조건 하에서 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 GC-100X는 37℃, 3시간 반응 조건 하에서 모든 유해균에 대해 1.0X 10^4 CFU/ml감소 이상의 효과를 나타내었으며 멸균 증류수나 표준 경수로 2배 희석한 경우에도 동일한 결과를 나타내었다. 유기물이 존재할 경우는 항균력의 약화가 관찰되었고, 그람 양성균에 대한 항균력은 높지 않았으나 그람 음성균에 대해서는 강력하고 빠른 사멸능력을 나타내었다. 방울 토마토에 인위적으로 E. coli O157:H7을 부착시키고 그에 대한 GC-100X의 세척효과를 기타의 세척제들과 비교해 본 결과, GC-100X 원액, GC-100X 5% 용액은 100 ppm 염소용액과 유사한 세척효과를 나타내었으며 시판 주방용 합성세제에 비해 그 성능이 우수하였다. 또한 시판 주방용 합성세제와는 달리 GC-100X, GC-100X 5% 및 3% 100 ppm 염소용액은 세척후 토마토 내부로의 균 침투를 억제하는 기능이 있음을 확인하였다. 이 결과는 식품 위생과 주방 청결에 일조할 하나의 방안으로서 안전성, 항균력, 세척력을 갖춘 GC-100X의 식품분야 적용 가능성을 시사하고 있다.

본 연구에서는 5종의 유산균들 (Lactobacillus reuteri, L. acidophillus, L. bulgaricus, L. casei and Bifidobacterium longum)의 식중독 균들에 대한 항균력을 조사하였다. 각 유산균들을 3가지 서로 다른 조건 (MRS+glucose, MRS+0.5 M glycerol, 0.25 M glycerol solution)에서 배양한 후 그 상층액이 포함된 Moulter Hinton Agar에 8종의 유해균들을 접종하였다. MRS+glucose, MRS+0.5 M glycero에서의 상층액을 이용한 실험에서는 L. reuteri의 항균력이 다른 유산균들에 비해 높지 않았으나 0.25 M glycerol solution에서는 탁월하게 높은 결과를 나타내었다. (p<0.05). 0.25 M glycerol solution에서 나타난 높은 항균력은 L. reuteri가 glycerol을 이용하여 생산하는 reuterin이란 물질 때문이라 생각되며, 0.25 M glycerol solution의 상층액을 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)를 통해 분석한 결과 reuterin의 존재를 확인할 수 있었다. 3가지 조건 하에서의 항균력 시험 결과 가장 높은 항균력을 나타낸 3가지 유산균들 (Lactobacillus resuteri, L. bulgaricus, L. casei)을 선발, 각각 최고의 항균력을 나타낸 조건으로 배양하여 최소사멸농도 (minimum bactericidal concentration)를 측정한 결과, L. reuteri가 생산한 reuterin이 광범위 항균물질임을 확인하였다. 또한 pH 적정, pepsin 혹은 trypsin 처리를 한 후 3가지 유산균들의 항균력 변화를 조사한 결과 L. bulgaricus와 L. casei의 항균력은 이러한 조건에서 상당히 감소한 반면 reuterin의 항균력은 아무런 영향을 받지않았다 (p<0.05). 이상의 결과들로 보아 주요 유산균들 중에서 L. reuteri의 항균력이 가장 우수하면서 광범위하였으며 이는 L. reuteri가 분비하는 항균물질인 reuterin에 기인한 것으로 사료된다. 또한 reuterin의 항균력은 타 유산균과는 달리 장관내 pH나 단백질 분해효소에 의해 영향을 받지 않으므로 인체나 동물 장관에서 가장 높은 효력을 가진다고 판단할 수 있다.

In order to develop a antimicrobial agent, dried bamboo trunk was extracted by high temperature suction and then antimicrobial activities against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 2825 and Escherichia coli DH 5α were investigated as compared with tea tree oil and BHA. The minimal inhibitory concentration(MIC) of the extracted substance against microorganisms were also examined. The results are as follows: 1. By disc diffusion method, BHA showed the strongest antimicrobial activity on Gram-positive bacteria such as S. aureus ATCC 2825 but bamboo essential oil showed the strongest antimicrobial activity on Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli DH 5α. 2. By broth dilution method, the minimum inhibitory concentration of the BHA, tea tree oil and bamboo oil were not detected against S. aureus ATCC 2825(MIC, 6.0 ㎕/㎖) and E. cola DH 5α(MIC, 6.0 ㎕/㎖)

This study was carried out to know the active fraction of Dryopteris rhizoma on antimicrobial activity against some food spoilage microorganisms. Also, antimicrobal activities were investigated for the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of four herbs such as Terminaliae fructus, Eugeniae flos, Salviae miltiorrhizae radix and Dryopteris rhizoma. Antimicrobial activities of three herbs except for Terminaliae fructus showed higher activities in 75% ethanolic extracts than in aquoeus extract. Ethanolic extract of Dryopteris rhizoma showed the highest antimicrobial activity among extracts of four herbs. Antimicrobial activity intensities of solvent fractions of Dryopteris rhizoma extracted by 75% ethanol were order to CHCl₃ fraction$gt;EtOAc fraction $gt;BuOH fraction$gt;H₂O fraction. The CHCl_(3+) EtOAc and BuOH fractions also inhibited growth of food spoilage microorganisms as the concentration increased, respectively. In case of EtOAc fraction, 1000 ppm of fraction almost inhibited completely the growth of microorganisms tested.