In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity

[Background]: β-Glucosidase assay is performed with purified or semipurified enzymes extracted from cell lysis. However, in screening studies, to find bacteria with β-glucosidase activity among many tested bacteria, a fast method without cell lysis is desirable. In that objective, we report an in vi...

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Autores: Strahsburger, Erwin, López de Lacey, Ana M., Marotti, Ilaria, Di Gioia, Diana, Biavati, Bruno, Dinelli, Giovanni
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Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:β-Glucosidase assay
Screening
β-Glucosidase producer strain
Antimicrobial
p-Nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside
Bifidobacterium
Cell lysis
Enzymatic test
Lactobacillus
p-Nitrophenol
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spelling In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activityStrahsburger, ErwinLópez de Lacey, Ana M.Marotti, IlariaDi Gioia, DianaBiavati, BrunoDinelli, Giovanniβ-Glucosidase assayScreeningβ-Glucosidase producer strainAntimicrobialp-Nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranosideBifidobacteriumCell lysisEnzymatic testLactobacillusp-Nitrophenol[Background]: β-Glucosidase assay is performed with purified or semipurified enzymes extracted from cell lysis. However, in screening studies, to find bacteria with β-glucosidase activity among many tested bacteria, a fast method without cell lysis is desirable. In that objective, we report an in vivo β-glucosidase assay as a fast method to find a β-glucosidase producer strain. [Results]: The method consists in growing the strains for testing in a medium supplemented with the artificial substrate p-nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside (pNPG). The presence of β-glucosidases converts the substrate to p-nitrophenol (pNP), a molecule that can be easily measured in the supernatant spectrophotometrically at 405 nm. The assay was evaluated using two Bifidobacterium strains: Bifidobacterium longum B7254 strain that lacks β-glucosidase activity and Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum B7003 strain that shows β-glucosidase activity. The addition of sodium carbonate during pNP measurement increases the sensitivity of pNP detection and avoids the masking of absorbance by the culture medium. Furthermore, we show that pNP is a stable enzymatic product, not metabolized by bacteria, but with an inhibitory effect on cell growth. The β-glucosidase activity was measured as units of enzyme per gram per minute per dry cell weight. This method also allowed the identification of Lactobacillus strains with higher β-glucosidase activity among several lactobacillus species. [Conclusion]: This in vivo β-glucosidase assay can be used as an enzymatic test on living cells without cell disruption. The method is simple, quantitative, and recommended, especially in studies screening for bacteria not only with β-glucosidase activity but also with high β-glucosidase activity.The study was funded by the University of Bologna, RFO Program number J61J10000790001. Erwin Strahsburger received a scholarship within the Erasmus Mundus Program. Ana M. Lopez de Lacey received a fellowship within the JAE-CSIC predoctoral Programme. The study was also financially funded by the Universidad Arturo Prat, internal projects number VRIIP0218-15 and VRIIP01-14.Peer ReviewedElsevierUniversità di BolognaEuropean CommissionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2018201820172018info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/171408reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejbt.2017.08.010Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1714082026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
title In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
spellingShingle In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
Strahsburger, Erwin
β-Glucosidase assay
Screening
β-Glucosidase producer strain
Antimicrobial
p-Nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside
Bifidobacterium
Cell lysis
Enzymatic test
Lactobacillus
p-Nitrophenol
title_short In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
title_full In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
title_fullStr In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
title_full_unstemmed In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
title_sort In vivo assay to identify bacteria with β-glucosidase activity
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Strahsburger, Erwin
López de Lacey, Ana M.
Marotti, Ilaria
Di Gioia, Diana
Biavati, Bruno
Dinelli, Giovanni
author Strahsburger, Erwin
author_facet Strahsburger, Erwin
López de Lacey, Ana M.
Marotti, Ilaria
Di Gioia, Diana
Biavati, Bruno
Dinelli, Giovanni
author_role author
author2 López de Lacey, Ana M.
Marotti, Ilaria
Di Gioia, Diana
Biavati, Bruno
Dinelli, Giovanni
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Università di Bologna
European Commission
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv β-Glucosidase assay
Screening
β-Glucosidase producer strain
Antimicrobial
p-Nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside
Bifidobacterium
Cell lysis
Enzymatic test
Lactobacillus
p-Nitrophenol
topic β-Glucosidase assay
Screening
β-Glucosidase producer strain
Antimicrobial
p-Nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside
Bifidobacterium
Cell lysis
Enzymatic test
Lactobacillus
p-Nitrophenol
description [Background]: β-Glucosidase assay is performed with purified or semipurified enzymes extracted from cell lysis. However, in screening studies, to find bacteria with β-glucosidase activity among many tested bacteria, a fast method without cell lysis is desirable. In that objective, we report an in vivo β-glucosidase assay as a fast method to find a β-glucosidase producer strain. [Results]: The method consists in growing the strains for testing in a medium supplemented with the artificial substrate p-nitrophenyl-β-glucopyranoside (pNPG). The presence of β-glucosidases converts the substrate to p-nitrophenol (pNP), a molecule that can be easily measured in the supernatant spectrophotometrically at 405 nm. The assay was evaluated using two Bifidobacterium strains: Bifidobacterium longum B7254 strain that lacks β-glucosidase activity and Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum B7003 strain that shows β-glucosidase activity. The addition of sodium carbonate during pNP measurement increases the sensitivity of pNP detection and avoids the masking of absorbance by the culture medium. Furthermore, we show that pNP is a stable enzymatic product, not metabolized by bacteria, but with an inhibitory effect on cell growth. The β-glucosidase activity was measured as units of enzyme per gram per minute per dry cell weight. This method also allowed the identification of Lactobacillus strains with higher β-glucosidase activity among several lactobacillus species. [Conclusion]: This in vivo β-glucosidase assay can be used as an enzymatic test on living cells without cell disruption. The method is simple, quantitative, and recommended, especially in studies screening for bacteria not only with β-glucosidase activity but also with high β-glucosidase activity.
publishDate 2017
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejbt.2017.08.010

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