Project description:Lactobacillus salivarius is a member of the indigenous microbiota of the human gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Tolerance to bile stress is crucial for intestinal lactobacilli to survive in the GIT and to exert their beneficial actions. In this work, the Next-Generation Sequencing platform Illumina HiSeq 2000 was used to investigate the global response to bile in L. salivarius Ren, a potential probiotic strain isolated from a healthy centenarian. In the presence of 0.75 g liter-1 oxgall, the transcription of nearly 200 genes was detected to be associated with bile stress, including genes involved in carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism, cell envelope and fatty acid biogenesis, transcription and translation. This study improves our understanding on bile stress response in L. salivarius Ren.
Project description:We used Affymetrix microarrays to investigate gene expression changes in somatic cells from breast-milk extracted from women suffering from mastitis and taking a daily dose of three capsules with ~50 mg of a freeze-dried probiotic (~109 CFU of L. salivarius PS2 strain) for 21 days. Healthy women were subjected to the same treatment for comparison.