Abstract
The inhibitory effect of carboxymethyl pachyman (CMP) mixed with lotus seedpod oligomeric procyanidins (LSPC) in certain ratios against E. coli 10899 was determined. Added low concentration of LSPC could improve the antibacterial activity of CMP, and a significant synergistic effect could be observed between them, especially when the concentration of CMP was below its critical concentration (1.35 mg/mL). Then, the interaction between CMP and LSPC was characterized after mixing; the changes in spectral characteristics, thermal properties, crystallinity pattern, molecular weight, chain morphology and microrheological behaviour explained the influence of interaction on the structure of CMP and LSPC. The smaller molecular size, electrostatic interaction and stronger hydrophobic interaction might play important roles in improving the antibacterial activity of mixture. The dissociation constant (Kd) was determined to be 0.102±0.0008 mg/mL using MicroScale Thermophoresis (MST), and the micromorphology was observed by SEM. Therefore, this mixture might be an effective natural bacteriostat.
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