Antimicrobial activity of Sargassum fulvellum(SF) was investigated by disk diffusion method and MIC test, and inspected stability of processing characteristics through extreme heat and pHs. Additionally antimicrobial component was purified from SF eth...
Antimicrobial activity of Sargassum fulvellum(SF) was investigated by disk diffusion method and MIC test, and inspected stability of processing characteristics through extreme heat and pHs. Additionally antimicrobial component was purified from SF ethanol extract. The results of antimicrobial test, SF ethanol extract showed great antimicrobial activity against B. subtilis, C. perfringens, L. plantarum, S. aureus, L. monocytogenes, S. cerevisiae and C. tropicalis by disk diffusion method at level of 4 mg/ml. On the other hand, water extract showed no effect. The MIC value of SF ethanol extract ranged from 0.05 to 0.0063% against test microbes. But SF ethanol extract showed no effect against gram negative bacteria and mold within 0.3% concentration. At the heat and pH stability test, antimicrobial activity of SF ethanol extract was not destroyed by the heating at 121?? for 15 min, and not affected by pH 2~10. These results suggest that SF ethanol extract was greatly considered the stable substance under the change of heat and pH. Purification was carried out by liquid and liquid extraction, silica gel column chromatography, and HPLC. First, the SF ethanol extract was separated by liquid and liquid extraction, and five fractions were obtained, hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, butanol, and water. As a result of MIC test for each obtained fractions, the chloroform fraction showed the strongest level of antimicrobial activity. The chloroform fraction, which exhibited the antimicrobial activity at the level of 0.05~0.003%, was separated using silica gel column chromatography, and 16 of sub-fractions were obtained. Among them, CH4, which showed the highest activity, was used to perform HPLC for isolated and purification of a single substance. The fraction was separated through a ??Bondapak ․ C18(125 ??, 10 ??m) column with eluted 65% THF and 3 main peaks were obtained. the antimicrobial activity of each subfraction were measured by disk diffusion method and MIC test. Among them, peak 1 and 2 showed the highest effect against S. aureus, B. subtilis, L. monocytogenes and L. Inoccua by disk diffusion method at level of 4 mg/ml. As a result of MIC test for peak 1 and 2, the peak 1 showed the strongest level of antimicrobial activity. The results confirm the possible use of Sargassum fulvellum as natural antimicrobial agents to control food spoilage and food poisoning microorganisms in food industries.