Senesi S, Celandroni F, Tavanti A, Ghelardi E
Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Biotecnologie Mediche, Infettivologia ed Epidemiologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2001 Feb;67(2):834-9. doi: 10.1128/AEM.67.2.834-839.2001.
A substantial number of Bacillus species have been marketed for use in oral bacteriotherapy because of their purported ability to prevent or treat various gastrointestinal disorders. Recently, some of the Bacillus strains in Enterogermina, which is made up of aqueous suspensions of viable Bacillus spores, have been partially characterized and aligned with members of the Bacillus alcalophilus subgroup rather than with Bacillus subtilis, as previously reported. With a view toward verifying the original taxonomic position of the Enterogermina strains, we catalogued both phenotypic and genotypic traits exhibited by the four Bacillus strains isolated from the spore mixtures found in original commercial preparations dated 1975 and 1984 and commercial preparations now being propagated industrially. Analyses of physiological and biochemical traits, complete 16S rRNA gene sequences, DNA-DNA reassociation, tRNA intergenic spacer length polymorphism, single-strand conformation polymorphism of PCR-amplified spacer regions of tRNA genes, and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA led to the finding that all of the Enterogermina strains belong to a unique genospecies, which is unequivocally identified as the alkalitolerant species Bacillus clausii. Moreover, we provide evidence that in contrast to several reference strains of B. clausii, the strains constituting Enterogermina are characterized by a notable low level of intraspecific genome diversity and that each strain has remained the same for the last 25 years.
由于据称具有预防或治疗各种胃肠道疾病的能力,大量芽孢杆菌属物种已被推向市场用于口服细菌疗法。最近,整肠生与芽孢杆菌属物种组成,其由活芽孢杆菌的水悬浮液组成,一些菌株已得到部分鉴定,并与嗜碱芽孢杆菌亚组的成员归为一类,而不是像之前报道的那样与枯草芽孢杆菌归为一类。为了验证整肠生菌株最初的分类地位,我们对从1975年和1984年的原始商业制剂以及目前正在工业生产的商业制剂中的孢子混合物中分离出的四种芽孢杆菌菌株所表现出的表型和基因型特征进行了编目。对生理和生化特征、完整的16S rRNA基因序列、DNA-DNA重结合、tRNA基因间间隔长度多态性、tRNA基因PCR扩增间隔区的单链构象多态性以及随机扩增多态性DNA的分析发现,所有整肠生菌株都属于一个独特的基因种,明确鉴定为耐碱物种克劳氏芽孢杆菌。此外,我们提供的证据表明,与克劳氏芽孢杆菌的几个参考菌株相比,构成整肠生的菌株具有显著低水平的种内基因组多样性,并且在过去25年中每个菌株都保持不变。