FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (10): 59-62.

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Preliminary Study on Inhibitory Effect of Anthocyanins from Purple Sweet Potato Against Staph.aureus

 HAN  Yong-Bin, ZHU  Hong-Mei, GU  Zhen-Xin, FAN  Gong-Jian, 吕Ying-Shuang   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control,Ministry of Agriculture,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China;2.College of Food Science and Technology,Shanxi Normal University,Linfen 041004,China
  • Online:2008-10-15 Published:2011-12-08

Abstract: The reults of bacteriostatic experiment of anthocyanins from purple sweet potato indicated that their minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) on Staph.aureus is 200μg/ml. The observation under transmission electron microscope (TEM) was carried out and the growth curve of Staph.aureus was analyzed. It was indicated that the anthocyanins might change the permeability of cell membrane and make cell excrescent to inhibit cell division. As a result,cytoplasm becomes thin,disas-sembles and even dies. SDS-PAGE analysis suggested that the anthocyanins have some effects on synthesized quantities of some proteins,but no disappearence of special protein lines is found.

Key words: anthocyanins from purple sweet potato, Staph.aureus, inhibitory effect