Wound dressings play a crucial role in promoting efficient wound closure and healing by providing an environment conducive to tissue repair. Traditional wound dressings, such as cellulose-based gauze, often exhibit challenges in adhesion and exudate absorption, necessitating frequent replacements that may cause additional trauma. Biocellulose (BC), derived from bacteria, presents a natural c…
Pediococcus acidilactici is a gram-positive lactic acid bacteria (LAB) widely used as a probiotic due to its safety, benefits, and ability to survive in the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. One of the challenges for probiotic species is the presence of bile salt, which can degrade bacterial cell membrane due to its main function in lipid solubilization. Bile salt can als…
Pediococcus is a genus that belongs to the family Lactobacillaceae. This family of bacteria consists of gram-positive Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) commonly found in fermented products. Pediococcus acidilactici holds an important role in food preservation due to its ability to inhibit food-borne pathogens through pediocin production, a heat-stable antimicrobial peptide. While pediocin is the m…
Recently, Pediococcus acidilactici has gained interest in research studies due to its potential probiotic properties. However, it has low survivability during digestion and short shelf life. Spray drying is widely used as a food preservation method, ensuring a stable and extended shelf-life of probiotics. At the same time, the use of spray drying is associated with several stresses, including h…
Pediococcus acidilactici has gained a lot of interest lately due to its ability as a potential probiotic strain. However, concerns regarding its viability and stability during consumption and storage lead to a solution to utilize spray dry as an encapsulation method for Pediococcus acidilactici. Yet, the utilization of spray drying could affect the cell viability and its functional probiotic pr…
Pediococcus acidilactici has gained research interest due to its potent probiotic characteristics. However, it has low survivability in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Thus, spray drying is commonly used to improve its survival. Although current studies obtained high spray drying encapsulation efficiency, further evaluation of its survival during GIT and viability during storage is no…
Fermented dairy has been consumed widely and estimated to have inclining demand due to health benefits offered. Discoveries and studies on alternatives of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture in producing fermented dairy with more health benefits have been carried out to meet the demand. Pedioccocus acidilactici, gained popularity due to its well-known bacteriocin, Pediocin PA-1 and P…
A preliminary antimicrobial assay showed the antimicrobial activity of P. acidilactici but the SDS-PAGE did not reveal pediocin, an antimicrobial peptide produced by Pediococcus strain. The efficient downstream processing of P. acidilactici fermentation is studied to analyze pediocin. This research is conducted to assess the compatibility of different methods in concentrating pediocin in th…
The demand of a food preservative has been increasing due to foodborne diseases due to foodborne pathogens. Moreover, there is also an issue on the health risks caused chemical food preservatives, further increasing demand on a safer food preservative. Recently, Pediococcus acidilactici has been gaining interest as a potential natural food preservative due to its ability to produce pediocin,…
The demand of a food preservative has been increasing due to foodborne diseases due to foodborne pathogens. Moreover, there is also an issue on the health risks caused chemical food preservatives, further increasing demand on a safer food preservative. Recently, Pediococcus acidilactici has been gaining interest as a potential natural food preservative due to its ability to produce pediocin,…
"Pediococcus acidilactici is a non-pathogenic probiotic bacteria that can improve gut health by adhering to intestinal cells and inhibiting pathogen adherence. To create an easy-to-use product, probiotics are often produced in powdered form using spray drying. However, this drying method can affect the probiotic's viability and functionality. This study examined the impact of spray drying in…
Fermented dairy has been consumed widely and estimated to have inclining demand due to health benefits offered. Discoveries and studies on alternatives of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture in producing fermented dairy with more health benefits have been carried out to meet the demand. Pedioccocus acidilactici, gained popularity due to its well-known bacteriocin, Pediocin PA-1 and P…
Pediococcus acidilactici is a lactic acid bacteria that has been found on many fermented foods around the world, showing its capability as a starter culture. It is gaining research interest due to its probiotic potential that can provide additional health benefits, further increasing its value as starter culture. Starter cultures are typically commercialized in powder form, with one of the …
Probiotic is a non-pathogenic microorganism that can benefit its host. Therefore to start colonization and increase their transit time in the gut so the probiotic can interact with the host and give health benefits they must adhere to the intestinal epithelial cells. Bacterial adhesion is a key probiotic property that Pediococcus acidilactici must have as a probiotic. The ability of the P. a…
Bile salt hydrolase (BSH) is important to help bile salt deconjugation, converting bile salt into a more hydrophobic form which helps to alleviate cholesterol level in the body. BSH is a N-terminal nucleophile superfamily enzyme, and frequently found in lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Spray drying, as one of preservation methods, is often applied for commercial production, and known to reduce th…
Probiotics are microorganisms that can confer health benefits when consumed in sufficient amounts. One of the examples of probiotics is Pediococcus acidilactici which has probiotic potential due to its characteristics, such as its ability to produce pediocin. Probiotics are usually subjected to various temperature stresses during their processing and storage, which may lead to undesirable…