title: Differentiation of bifidobacteria by use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: Several different genomic fingerprints can be obtained from various commercially-important species of Bifidobacterium using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) following digestion of DNA with XbaI and SpeI. Four different genomic finger printings were discernible for reference strains of Bifidobacterium animalis, five for B. bifidum, three for B. breve, five for B. infantis and three for B. longum. Standard commercially-available industrial strains of B. animalis are identical to the reference strain ATCC 27536, previously isolated from chicken feces. There was more genomic heterogeneity among industrial strains of B. longum, in that only one gave profiles similar to the type strain of this species (ATCC 15707). The other 14 commercially-available strains of B. longum (mainly isolated from Japanese commercial preparations) were divided into four new molecular types based on their PFGE patterns. The PFGE method indicated that only five distinct strains of B. longum and one strain of B. animalis are used in commercial preparations. Additionally, the use of polymerase chain reaction amplification of portions of 16S rDNA provides a highly specific technique to discriminate between the species B. breve, B. infantis and B. longum.
authors.affiliation: Food Research and Development Centre, Agriculture Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Champagne
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001644:Bifidobacterium / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002645:Chickens; D002648:Child; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel / Q000379:methods; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; C056436:endodeoxyribonuclease SpeI; C025580:endodeoxyribonuclease XBAI; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific