Consumption of fresh and minimally processed food is closely related to foodborne diseases. To minimize the adverse effects, bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance (BLIS) as a natural preservative can be used. One of the bacteriocins with promising activity was produced by sp. Using gel filtration chromatography, the bacteriocin purification process succeeded in obtaining semi-purified fractions with broad-spectrum inhibitory activity to foodborne pathogen bacteria. These fractions are also stable up to 100 °C and pH 2.0-7.0. High-Resolution Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry analysis followed by orthogonal projection to latent structure showed that each fraction had eight peaks with the highest positive correlation to BLIS-specific activity. Peptide identification based on MS spectrum found 597 predictive peptides, of which 42 predictive peptides with antimicrobial peptide characteristics and the highest iAMPpred antimicrobial peptide probability (>0.5) were selected. The selected predictive peptides have molecular mass of 247.13-615.37 Da and consist of at least 20% hydrophobic amino acids with a hydrophobicity value of 14.72 Kcal mol. The results of this study indicate the effectiveness of BLIS purification by gel filtration chromatography and the promising potential of semi-purified BLIS as a natural preservative. Besides, the active peptides in semi-purified BLIS can also be identified quickly so that the isolation process to obtain purified-BLIS can be carried out more efficiently.
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