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. 2024 Dec 27;11(1):12.
doi: 10.3390/gels11010012.

Contribution of Phosphorylation Modification to Stability and Antibacterial Activity of Egg White Protein Nanogels Loaded with Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil

Sheng-Qi Rao  1   2 , Xin-Ru Gao  1   2 , Hui Liu  1   2 , Zhi-Rong Wang  1   2 , Zhen-Quan Yang  1   2   3
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Contribution of Phosphorylation Modification to Stability and Antibacterial Activity of Egg White Protein Nanogels Loaded with Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil

Sheng-Qi Rao et al. Gels. .

Abstract

This study evaluated the potential usage of phosphorylated egg white protein (P-EWP) nanogels fabricated via microwave-induced phosphorylation modification and gel process and further ultrasonic nanometrization as novel delivery systems for cinnamon bark essential oil (CBEO). Compared to EWP-CBEO nanogels without chemical phosphorylation, the obtained P-EWP-CBEO nanogels have shown smaller average hydrodynamic diameter (133.6 nm), relatively uniform size distribution (polydispersity index around 0.265), enhanced negative surface charge (-35.4 mV), and improved stability under the conditions of high temperature (up to 90 °C) and ionic strength (up to 200 mM NaCl). Moreover, P-EWP-CBEO nanogels, with hydrophobic interactions and disulfide bonds as the main intermolecular forces, exhibited a remarkable conformational change in microstructures. In addition, the results of the antibacterial experiments on Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes showed that the MIC values of P-EWP-CBEO nanogels were two times lower than those of EWP-CBEO nanogels and could completely inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria within 108 h. Hence, we have suggested that P-EWP-CBEO nanogels are successfully fabricated with improved physicochemical properties as novel potential natural preservatives in the food industry.

Keywords: antibacterial properties; cinnamon bark essential oil; egg white protein; nanogels; phosphorylation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Particle size distribution of P-EWP-CBEO nanogels.
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FTIR spectra of P-EWP-CBEO nanogels.
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Differential scanning thermal analysis of P-EWP-CBEO nanogels.
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Scanning electron micrography (SEM) of freeze-drying egg white protein powder (A1,A2), egg white protein-embedded cinnamon essential oil nanogels (EWP-CBEO) (B1–B3), and phosphorylation-modified egg white protein-embedded cinnamon essential oil nanogels (P-EWP-CBEO) (C1–C3).
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Effect of different temperatures (30–90 °C) on the particle size and zeta potential of EWP-CBEO (A) and P-EWP-CBEO (B). A1 and B1 represent the particle size and Zeta-potential maps of EWP-CBEO and P-EWP-CBEO; A2 and B2 represent the morphology of EWP-CBEO and P-EWP-CBEO, respectively. Broken lines with different lower-case letters within the same panel are significantly different at p < 0.05 level according to Duncan’s multiple range test.
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Figure 6
Effect of different ionic strengths on the particle size and zeta-potential of EWP-CBEO and P-EWP-CBEO nanogels. Samples were measured after being placed for 12 h at different ionic strengths (0–400 mM) for 30 min; EWP-CBEO (A) and P-EWP-CBEO (B) represent sample morphology, respectively. Samsamples were left for 12 h after 30 min at different ionic intensities (0–400 mM); (B): particle size and Zeta-potential map of the P-EWP-CBO; EWP-CBO (A) and P-EWP-CBO (B1) represent the morphology of the samples. Different superscript letters indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05).
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Figure 7
Effects of LB, CBEO, EWP-CBEO, and P-EWP-CBEO nanogels on the time growth curves of Escherichia coli (A), Staphylococcus aureus (B), and Listeria monocytogenes (C).
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Figure 8
Flow chart of P-EWP-CBEO nanogel preparation.
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