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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2000, p. 4084-4090, Vol. 66, No. 9
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Purification and Characterization of Novel Antifungal Compounds from the Sourdough Lactobacillus plantarum Strain 21B

Paola Lavermicocca,1 Francesca Valerio,1 Antonio Evidente,2 Silvia Lazzaroni,2 Aldo Corsetti,3 and Marco Gobbetti4,*

Istituto Tossine e Micotossine da Parassiti Vegetali, CNR, 70125 Bari,1 Dipartimento Scienze Chimico-Agrarie, Facoltà di Agraria, Università "Federico II," 80055 Portici (Napoli),2 Istituto di Industrie Agrarie (Microbiologia), Facoltà di Agraria di Perugia, S. Costanzo, 06126 Perugia,3 and Dipartimento Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Facoltà di Agraria di Bari, 70125 Bari,4 Italy

Received 9 March 2000/Accepted 16 June 2000

Sourdough lactic acid bacteria were selected for antifungal activity by a conidial germination assay. The 10-fold-concentrated culture filtrate of Lactobacillus plantarum 21B grown in wheat flour hydrolysate almost completely inhibited Eurotium repens IBT18000, Eurotium rubrum FTDC3228, Penicillium corylophilum IBT6978, Penicillium roqueforti IBT18687, Penicillium expansum IDM/FS2, Endomyces fibuliger IBT605 and IDM3812, Aspergillus niger FTDC3227 and IDM1, Aspergillus flavus FTDC3226, Monilia sitophila IDM/FS5, and Fusarium graminearum IDM623. The nonconcentrated culture filtrate of L. plantarum 21B grown in whole wheat flour hydrolysate had similar inhibitory activity. The activity was fungicidal. Calcium propionate at 3 mg ml-1 was not effective under the same assay conditions, while sodium benzoate caused inhibition similar to L. plantarum 21B. After extraction with ethyl acetate, preparative silica gel thin-layer chromatography, and chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses, novel antifungal compounds such as phenyllactic and 4-hydroxy-phenyllactic acids were identified in the culture filtrate of L. plantarum 21B. Phenyllactic acid was contained at the highest concentration in the bacterial culture filtrate and had the highest activity. It inhibited all the fungi tested at a concentration of 50 mg ml-1 except for P. roqueforti IBT18687 and P. corylophilum IBT6978 (inhibitory concentration, 166 mg ml-1). L. plantarum 20B, which showed high antimold activity, was also selected. Preliminary studies showed that phenyllactic and 4-hydroxy-phenyllactic acids were also contained in the bacterial culture filtrate of strain 20B. Growth of A. niger FTDC3227 occurred after 2 days in breads started with Saccharomyces cerevisiae 141 alone or with S. cerevisiae and Lactobacillus brevis 1D, an unselected but acidifying lactic acid bacterium, while the onset of fungal growth was delayed for 7 days in bread started with S. cerevisiae and selected L. plantarum 21B.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Facoltà di Agraria di Bari, via Amendola 165/a, 70125 Bari, Italy. Phone: 39 0805442949. E-mail: gobbetti{at}unipg.it.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2000, p. 4084-4090, Vol. 66, No. 9
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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