CERELA   05438
CENTRO DE REFERENCIA PARA LACTOBACILOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Application of fluorescent techniques to evaluate the survival of probiotic lactobacilli to bile acid
Autor/es:
BUSTOS, ANA YANINA; RAYA, RAUL; BRU DE LAVANDA, ELENA; FONT DE VALDEZ, GRACIELA; TARANTO, MARIA PIA
Revista:
BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Año: 2010
ISSN:
0141-5492
Resumen:
The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in the functional food design depends of their ability to survive in the gastrointestinal tract where bile is an important natural barrier. Bile is mainly constituted by conjugated bile acids, which can be hydrolyzed to free bile acids and taurine or glycine.In this work, changes in the transmembrane electrical potential (ΔΨ) of probiotic LAB strains due to the effect of conjugated and free bile acids were measured. The results showed that the majority of the tested LAB strains showed greater sensibility to free bile acids than to their respective conjugated acids. Variations in the ΔΨ of the microorganism correlated well with bacterial viability determined by standard plate count method.According the results obtained, we propose the DiSC3-based fluorescent technique as a rapid and effective method to evaluate the resistance of probiotic lactobacilli to bile as first step for strain selection to be included in functional foods