The use of low-cost brewery waste product for the production of surfactin as a natural microbial biocide

Surfactin has potential as next generation antibiofilm agent to combat antimicrobial resistance against emerging pathogens. However, the widespread industrial applications of surfactin is hampered by its high production cost. In this work, surfactin was produced from Bacillus subtilis using a low-co...

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Autores: Nazareth, Talita Corrêa, Zanutto, Conrado Planas, Tripathi, Lakshmi, Juma, Abdulaziz, Maass, Danielle [UNIFESP], Souza, Antônio Augusto Ulson de, Souza, Selene Maria de Arruda Guelli Ulson de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/60837
Acceso en línea:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215017X20304847
https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/60837
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Palabra clave:Surfactin
Biosurfactants
Brewery waste
Biofilm
Adhesion
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Sumario:Surfactin has potential as next generation antibiofilm agent to combat antimicrobial resistance against emerging pathogens. However, the widespread industrial applications of surfactin is hampered by its high production cost. In this work, surfactin was produced from Bacillus subtilis using a low-cost brewery waste as a carbon source. The strain produced 210.11 mg L-1 after 28 h. The antimicrobial activity was observed against all tested strains, achieving complete inhibition for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, at 500 mg mL-1. A growth log reduction of 3.91 was achieved for P. aeruginosa while, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis showed between 1 and 2 log reductions. In the anti-biofilm assays against P. aeruginosa, the co-incubation, anti-adhesive and disruption showed inhibition, where the greatest inhibition was observed in the co-incubation assay (79.80%). This study provides evidence that surfactin produced from a low-cost substrate can be a promising biocide due to its antimicrobial and anti-biofilm abilities against pathogens.