Publication: In vitro assessment of Enterococcus faecalis MTC 1032 as the potential probiotic in food supplements
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2018-07-01
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09758402
00221155
00221155
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Mahidol University
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Journal of Food Science and Technology. Vol.55, No.7 (2018), 2384-2394
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Sirikhwan Tinrat, Piyatip Khuntayaporn, Krit Thirapanmethee, Mullika Traidej Chomnawang In vitro assessment of Enterococcus faecalis MTC 1032 as the potential probiotic in food supplements. Journal of Food Science and Technology. Vol.55, No.7 (2018), 2384-2394. doi:10.1007/s13197-018-3155-5 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/44719
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In vitro assessment of Enterococcus faecalis MTC 1032 as the potential probiotic in food supplements
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© 2018, Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India). Probiotics become important bacteria in our daily life due to their benefit on human health. In this study, a subset of bacterial strains from children was isolated and evaluated for beneficial probiotic traits such as antimicrobial activity, bile and acid tolerance, and pathogenic cell adherence inhibition. The strain with the best antimicrobial activity was selected for further characterization on the basis of morphological, biochemical characteristics and gene sequence. This strain was Gram-positive, oxidase and catalase-negative, and it produced acids by fermenting sugar and starch as carbon sources. Additionally, it could only hydrolyze bile-esculin, but not red blood cells. The 16S rDNA gene sequence revealed that this strain was Enterococcus faecalis. Interestingly, this strain effectively inhibited a variety of pathogens by acid and bacteriocin production and was bile-tolerant, able to survive under acidic condition. In the safety assessments, E. faecalis MTC 1032 could adhere to host epithelial cells and evidently inhibited pathogenic cell adhesion as demonstrated by cell reduction over time of E. coli ATCC 25922 and S. typhimurium ATCC 13311 on Caco-2 cell line. In summary, it was clearly represented that E. faecalis MTC 1032 provided suitable properties and could be a candidate as a probiotic strain in food supplements.